Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:45 p.m., ABC). Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, with Rise Stevens, Irene Jessner, Eleanor Steber, Emanuel List...
...reading it first in TIME, I took it to be a bit of South-baiting, a habit I think TIME sometimes has, and which makes my bristles rise. So, I rose for the bait, and took it, hook, line, sinker...
Beginning with the early colonial period, Mr. Schlesinger traces the evolution of manners. He describes the "minor morals" attitude of the earliest mentors, when American manners formed an adjunct to law and social structure, and punishment was swift for makers of ugly faces. With the Revolution and rise of republicanism, however, Mr. Schlesinger professes to see in manners the effort of common people to reach equality--a levelling process. A new conception of manners as a set of specific injunctions to be memorized developed, and a steady stream of manners books was demanded by the etiquette-hungry American people...
Changed Times. By the time the San Francisco Conference met in 1945, the line was changing. Nelson Rockefeller's immoderate success at cajoling Latin American delegates into a voting bloc gave rise to Soviet-American asperities. Just then three Soviet diplomats from Latin America paid Molotov a flying visit. It was soon clear what they had been told: Latin America's Commies soon rediscovered "American imperialism," began to line up an anti-American front-which could be useful when the Soviets bargained with the U.S. at the peace table. It led to strange friendships. Example: Argentina...
...Good Will was to "reflect a whole generation." That it does, as faithfully, as arbitrarily and almost as indiscriminately as a mirror set up in a public square. The Seventh of October takes its title from the last day in Romains' logbook, in Paris in 1933. Citizens yawn, rise, go to work. A girl visits her lover. An Englishman blushingly discusses sex. A priest talks about politics. Poincaré is ill, the U.S. debt is unpaid, Hitler is kicking up a row in Germany, and 25 years ago is 2,500,000 words away...