Word: roles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...role of the conservative is particularly important when we consider his opposite number, the emotional liberal. The liberal of this sort is one whose emotions are stirred when he reads a tag. If the tag says "pro union," he votes for whatever is in the package, whether it helps members of unions...
...response to this campaign from TIME Inc. readers all over the U.S. has, with a few exceptions, been enthusiastic, constructive, and very rewarding. Many readers took the time to write long, thoughtful treatises on the campaign itself and on their views of advertising's role in the U.S. economy. There were hundreds of requests for reprints of the advertisements-from manufacturers who wanted to display them on employee bulletin boards; from schools, colleges, art teachers, professors of history, journalism, advertising, marketing, etc., for use in classrooms; from business men and others who wanted to pass them on to friends...
...Will the Roman Church continue tacitly accepting the role assigned to it as the largest of the Christian sects and thus, while encouraging all to enter 'the one ark of salvation,' remain, defending its traditional privileges and furthering its corporate interests, engrossed in its own affairs? Or will it ... condescending to discuss ways and means with the heretics and schismatics, strive (assuming their cooperation) to bring into being a revivified Christendom...
...being a facsimile of the late Huey Long often turn the character into a colorless man who lacks the political charm of a people's favorite and looks like a cross between a schoolteacher and a gangster. But when Actor Crawford is allowed to swing around in the role, he has some fine scenes-notably, the seedy politico resting off a nightlong drunk in a playground swing, gesturing the children to go off and leave him alone...
...lines most of the time, thereby making some of them unintelligible. Moreover, her interpretation of the lesbian is so rigidly mannish as to become a caricature. Miss O'Connel is pleasing to gaze upon and believable as the heartless woman. Mr. Franklin brings an unusually fine voice to the role of the coward, and gives a good performance...