Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...connection with the steel impasse, TIME [Sept. 26] quotes U.S. Steel's Fairless as opposing noncontributory welfare programs as being "at the expense of someone else (i.e., management)" ... and in the next paragraph [you say]: "Such a program would cost the steel industry about $200 million a year and would lift the cost of steel as much...
...surprising view of how an appointment to a key Government office should be regarded. The case of Leland Olds, Mr. Truman said, was a question of party discipline, party policy. The trouble was, there were a lot of Democrats on Capitol Hill who thought they had a say in party policy, too. At week's end, they seemed to be in a mood to follow the practice of Senator Truman instead of the preaching of President Truman...
Believe the Opposite. "A woman alone at a bar usually expects to meet someone -anyone," he wrote. "Pick girl who wears glasses. Start off by asking a woman what she thinks is the most beautiful thing in the world . . . Believe just the opposite of what people say, especially men, and you will be right 98% of the time . . . Gambling diverts men faster than lechery . . . Love, luck, etc. return in cycles...
...event of the season, first-nighters saw England's fine company do a Russian masterpiece the way it is still done only in the Soviet Union and Covent Garden. They sat, charmed, through the complete three-act, three-hour-long Tchaikovsky-Petipa ballet The Sleeping Beauty. Few could say they had ever seen a more lavish spectacle and dancing grace on a U.S. ballet stage. It took Conductor Constant Lambert a full five minutes to get the music in motion again after the thunderous ovation for Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann's third-act pas de deux...
...general the music effectively increases the tension, though, with a lack of variation in the first act which is exasperating. Many of the arias, particularly those of the sweet, flighty Birdie, are genuine mood pieces, effectively incorporating devices for a Southern flavor. Yet the music lacks the consistency of, say, "Peter Grimes," so that the total effect is one of Blitzstein rather than the South. This is particularly true of the music used by the Negro group. Two of their numbers are beautiful spirituals, but the others lack, at least on first hearing, any Negro quality...