Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in the company of men whose lives and works have been devoted to evil, Walter Ulbricht stands out as a man without warmth or sentiment, humor or mercy. "In Ulbricht," wrote a commentator who found some redeeming features in other German Communists, is "only the worst." Another once described him thus: "Ulbricht is the kind of man who wants to enter a house which is guarded by a policeman at the front door, then decides it is easier to go in by the back door. He first begs a slice of bread, then seduces the maid, cleans...
...about slavery. Forrest, ill at ease amid hypocrisy, rose to say that if he hadn't thought he was fighting to keep his niggers, and other folks' niggers, he never would have gone to war in the first place. Forrest was interested in Sambo, not Ivanhoe. The sentiment was not pretty, but at least it was not fake conservatism...
...anti-execution sentiment was strongest in France, where the U.S. Government point in the Rosenberg case is not understood by one citizen in 100. (From 1946 to 1950, France had a Communist, Frederic Joliot-Curie, at the head of the atomic research program.) France's non-Communist daily, Combat, even objected to the scheduling of the execution to avoid the Jewish Sabbath. Combat called this "sadistic puritanism." In Paris, a mob tried to storm the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in the Place de la Concorde; a man was shot and a thousand rioters arrested. There were echoes...
Later, newsmen asked Morse directly about the 1954 rumor. He retorted: "Sheer nonsense." The Democrats' likeliest gubernatorial candidate in 1954, prolific magazine writer and State Senator Richard Neuberger, echoed the sentiment. Said Neuberger: he wanted no part in such "shenanigans" or "politics by gimmick." Besides, he added, "Democrats ought to know a lot more about Morse before welcoming him with open arms...
...violent contrasts by opposing minutely realistic human figures with clouds and metallic structures." If the workers, perched on their unfinished skyscraper, are far from "minutely realistic," they do look surprisingly human-for Léger. The tough old man, who has spent a lifetime painting pictures as empty of sentiment as pie plates, may be mellowing a trifle...