Word: slants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wary of official handouts after twelve years of Dr. Goebbels' force-feeding, German editors have grown to trust Amerika-Dienst because it does not slant its stories. Arnot figures that the good in U.S. life will outweigh the bad in any factual presentation. Once an editor in Nürnberg rejected an Amerika-Dienst picture of hundreds of U.S. workers' automobiles parked in front of a factory because "My readers will say it's just so much propaganda." Arnot came back with a story discussing high prices and unemployment, but also documenting the fact that...
...task of recreating such a familiar work becomes increasingly difficult with each successive performance. If Munch's interpretation had had one new slant, or two, probably no one would have noticed. But everything about this was different, startling, and best of all it wasn't Munch (or Koussevitzky), it was Brahms. From the first page everything converged upon a cataclysmic finale. The brass chorale in the last movement nearly knocked the statue of Pan in the second balcony off its pedestal. The end was a great overpowering mass of sound...
...Caldwell's novel, produced by Mr. Kirkland) first opened on Broadway in 1933, ran for 3,182 performances, played two return engagements thereafter. Now it is playing a third, with a Negro cast. Enough work has been done on the script to take care of the new racial slant; more work, indeed, than would seem to have been done on the production. A road-company cast is indulging in low (even for Tobacco Road) comedy capers. But this Tobacco Road is less alarming in itself than as a portent of even more shameless stunts for squeezing a few extra...
...former Yale biologist philosophized: "No matter how broke I get I will always have something to will." Another said, "I regard it as the best investment I ever made"-a sentiment echoed by many. A U.S. Army intelligence officer wrote: "When I subscribed, I figured this is a new slant on the news-this will succeed." A social science teacher, who used TIME in her classes, explained: "After I married and became a homemaker I needed TIME more than ever to keep me in touch with what was happening." Some just "decided to take a chance." Others felt...