Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benjamin J. Davis, New York's Communist councilman who thinks Communism is a science (TIME, Jan. 26), uncovered another foul capitalist plot last week. This time, said he, it was "an attempt to intimidate the powerful Negro sentiment behind the presidential candidacy of Henry Wallace...
...prefer to live peacefully with a little boy. The picture attains a focus of unusual moral and dramatic interest when a minister (Joe E. Brown) steals the dog and faces trial and jail rather than return him. But everything is comfortably fixed up before this conflict between legality and sentiment can seriously excite or embarrass the audience. Except for some ugly moments around the dog pit, and the irreducibly likable Mr. Brown, who plays it straight and sweet, the picture is a pathetic miss...
...time, 0 Lord." When he talked to her, "I had the feeling that he was really talking to himself," she wrote. "It was as though he lived outside of himself and George Marshall was someone he was constantly appraising. ... He would say, 'I cannot afford the luxury of sentiment. ... It is not easy to tell men they have failed. ... I cannot allow myself to get angry. . . .'" But Mrs. Marshall also wrote: " [They] have never seen him when he is aroused. It is like a bolt of lightning out of the blue. His withering vocabulary and the cold steel...
Henry Wallace, sounding out third party sentiment by sounding off in upstate New York, kept Democrats jittery, Republicans happy and newsmen jumping.* Said he: "If it is apparent that the Democratic Party is a war party, I will do all I can to see that there is a third party. . . ." He hammered hard at Harry Truman, said that as between Bob Taft and "Truman-of-the-moment," it would be Taft who would get his vote. Next day he took it back; he was just "playing a game of make-believe...
...himself speak to her was like biting into something spoiled and sour." "Jazz Man" is old stuff (a washed-up musician tries to bide the fact from himself), but that doesn't matter, for the telling is fresh and exciting. Here too violence plays its part, and so does sentiment, and here too both are nicely restrained...