Word: sellout
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...point to remember for the sake of Anglo-American solidarity against the Communist stratagems is that basic elements in the Soviet and British outlook are mutually and permanently repellent. They were present in the McCarthy era when Americans were being told to be on guard against a sellout by the British to the Communists. They would be present the next time a similar strain fell on the Anglo-American relationship-and the time after that...
...fact that last week's exhibition was a near sellout was a tribute to the enduring meaning of Käthe Kollwitz' vision. For in her way, she has given a woman's view as impassioned as Goya's horror of war, one that affirms the value of the human spirit, even while it grimly insists that revolt too often ends in chains, that death must finally triumph over life...
...real one in France. When some 60 dailies cluttered Paris kiosks in the 1920s, bankers and munitions makers kept newspapers like mistresses. By World War II, big business had a firm grip on the major Paris dailies. Afterward, millions of angry Frenchmen blamed business for the papers' sellout to collaborationists...
...continually attempting things that have not been done before" and rated him "the most original and interesting of the younger men." The Observer agreed, found it difficult to name a British contemporary "so exciting and fertile." The buyers backed the critics; Middleditch wound up his show with a near sellout, collected...
Hollywood's sellout to TV last week moved into the multimillion-dollar bracket. Thomas F. O'Neil, president of General Teleradio and new board chairman of RKO Radio Pictures, announced a $15 million deal with C & C Super Corp., which has taken a perpetual lease on 740 RKO features and 1,000 shorts. The features include such old favorites as Gunga Din, Citizen Kane, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Kitty Foyle, Stage Door, Having Wonderful Time, Once Upon a Honeymoon and eight Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals. All the films in the package...