Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complimented on your mention of Douglas Moore's article in the Saturday Review of Literature [TIME, Jan. 27], Professor Moore's remarks are quite generally shared throughout the country by all professional musicians who know what is going on. That we continue to debate about the American composer, or to discuss the virtues of opera in English, or to give these many ridiculous prizes to Americans, are all evidence of national infantilism...
...agreement to limit witnesses' time to one hour, and by sending field teams to the troubled northern border. Greece at last had a coalition Government. The new Premier, in place of Tsaldaris, was frail, ailing ex-Banker Demetrios Maximos, a nonparty ex-royalist. The new Government, promising to review the case of all political prisoners, made a start by releasing women & children. But civil strife, which had slackened after the U.N. commission's arrival, flared up again, this time farther south than before; Communists boldly raided the Sparta prison, freed 200 prisoners...
...Connell, associate professor of moral theology at Washington's Catholic University of America, has carefully spelled out the Catholic answer for such diverse occupational groups as doctors and policemen (TIME, June 3). In the current issue of his university's magazine for the priesthood, the American Ecclesiastical Review, Father Connell addresses himself to C.I.O. President Philip Murray and other good Catholic trade unionists. The question: When Is a Strike Lawful? Some Connell answers...
...Outlaw" raises some questions about the entire question of film censorship. If box office receipts are a good criterion, the public rushes to see any movie given the thumbs-down treatment by the women's downtown sewing club. The numerous amateur and state boards of review create delightful confusion, all the while playing into the hands of the film press agent...
...crowds at the London Pavilion. Last week 23-year-old Pressagent Suzanne Warner hit a headline jackpot. She lured a psychologist with a psycho-galvanometer (a gadget that measures emotional reactions) into the Pavilion. Her report: ¶ Critic Walter Wilcox of the Sunday Dispatch, who had penned a cool review, had a warm, 24-centimeter reaction to a close-up of Jane Russell's parted lips. ¶Hostile Critic Dick Richards of the Sunday Pictorial registered a more-than-friendly 28 centimeters to Jane in a loose bodice...