Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more like a wake than a wakening was Decision's first effort to revive western culture. Its first issue was ghostly and nostalgic, largely composed of sad reminiscences, tortured verse, confused self-questionings. Its most substantial pieces were a disillusioned essay by Aldous Huxley, condemning modern Europe's faith in facts, and an elegiac article on French civilization by Janet Planner...
...July he took a trip to Bucharest, dropped in to see Mititza Constantinescu, Finance Minister and Governor of the Rumanian National Bank. To Mititza, Sosthenes' story was familiar and sad. In 1930 I. T. & T. had paid $7,678,000 for 88% of the capital stock in Rumanian Telephone Co., which then had 50,000 telephones installed and terrible service. By 1940 the subscribers had risen to 102,268; the company was making $1,500,000 a year (20% on its original investment). But I. T. & T., because of exchange restrictions, got only pocket change. To Mititza & Sosthenes...
...cast is excellent, especially Eleonora Mendelssohn as the sad, contained Jewess, Paul von Hernreid as the prideful Nazi, and Betty Field as the war-sick bride. But Playwright Rice is so anti-Nazi that the play has a flat taste, like propaganda...
...newscasters have been so miscellaneously sponsored as sad-eyed, boot-nosed Gabriel Heatter. Since he went into radio in 1932, he has been backed by everything from a brewery to a personal-loan company. This week he added to his current list, which includes Liberty magazine and R. B. Semler, Inc. (Kreml, "not greasy - makes the hair behave"), For-han's toothpaste, which once encouraged four out of five U. S. citizens to brood about pyorrhea. Now on the air over MBS five times a week with the news, the busy Mr. Heatter also serves as interlocutor...
Sons of the Others might have been written for a boys-school literary magazine; certainly it would have been hooted down by college editors. It is a limp, sad affair in which Frenchmen supply atmosphere by calling each other My Old One; Old School Ties meet up in Northern France to drink bubbly, chaff each other about flirting with the French girls, and suffer, with their allies, the boredom of the long winter's "sitzkrieg...