Word: semis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio Yenan also had a bad word for Chungking's No. 1 ally, the U.S. American policy toward China (said Yenan) has become "definitely imperialistic"; it seeks to reduce China to a "colony or semi-colony" ; U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley (who tried valiantly to bring Chungking and Yenan together) is responsible for an anti-Communist shift in U.S. policy; he had misrepresented the situation to Washington; China must now choose between the "false democracy supported by the U.S. and the real democracy sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party...
Earl Browder said that Foster was guilty of "the purest anarcho-syndicalism." He assailed his critics for "IWWism," "semi-Trotskyism," and "bohemian anarchism." And, said he, bitterly: "The worst is yet to come...
Eddie's father (Charles Bickford) loved and believed in machines as his son did. Eddie's mother (Mary Phillips) felt that machines were "against God and nature." This semi-mystical debate on the virtues of the machine, which underlies the whole picture, is soberly set forth but not very convincing. But much more of the film concerns the comedy of archaic machinery, and that comes off much better (with expert help from James Gleason as an auto salesman, Chick Chandler as a demon fairgrounds aviator, and Fred MacMurray as a grease monkey...
...full splendor for the first time since World War II began, London's lights shone again. Like hope, their return had been long deferred through gloomy phases of semi-blackout and brownout. But to many a bemused Londoner they were a luminous confirmation of all but incredible peace. Piccadilly coruscated with almost prewar brilliance. Whitehall glittered along its entire length. Down at the Embankment, the Thames shimmered a reflected radiance. And the lights did not come on only in London...
...Levant, good friend and semi-official interpreter of Gershwin, turns out a workmanlike Concerto in F with the Philharmonic Orchestra of New York (Andre Kostelanetz conducting; Columbia, 6 sides...