Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from the treatment of its main theme, "Gentleman's Agreement" is one of the few pictures that contains an intelligent and realistic portrayal of the well-to-do semi-literary people who inhabit New York. Gregory Peek, John Garfield, Dorothy McGurie, and Celeste Holm are always completely aware of what is in the characters they are pretending to be. Perhaps they are a little too sensitive to the picture's peculiar brand of hate, but to them it is a casual frequenter of homes and business offices rather than a satanie mouster...
...good marks for diction, blending of voices and clarity of line, and for a welcome versatility of material which the Don Cossack choruses lack. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: "[This choir] could, without half trying, raise the whole level of our current taste in semi-popular music. It is that good." Columbia Concerts, Inc., which thought so too, has signed the boys to a 140-concert tour of the U.S. and Canada...
...seeks to make the schools of Massachusetts another arena of semi-hysterical witch-hunting, in which say teacher who dares hold an idea of Americanism different from that of Mr. Barnes may be legally deprived of his livelihood...
Businessmen were not too worried. FORTUNE'S semi-annual poll of 28,200 top executives found some 60% expecting the boom to continue at the present level or even higher in 1948. Only 37% expect a moderate downturn (last May 74% expected a slump by year's end). Some 90% expect to keep their present payrolls or boost them. Almost none expects to lower prices in the next six months...
Young Jacob Lawrence was shy, but he felt at home; he had long ago decided to become a painter. His mother had encouraged him when he was still a kid: "It kept me off the streets." Within a few years, his flaming, semi-abstract pictures of Negro life hung in half a dozen top U.S. museums, and won him three Rosenwald fellowships. Only 30 now, Jacob Lawrence is the nation's No. 1 Negro artist...