Word: slavishes
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Everything else to one side, talk of hard times at the Christmas season would offend Hollywood's sense of dramatic values. Along Hollywood Boulevard, the street lamps are covered with those decorations which are not real trees, or even slavish representations of real trees, but interesting, frankly synthetic designs frosted in colored lights. And along Wilshire and Sunset the roadside stands are gay with little trees sprayed in pale blue, white, pink and lavender. At this time, Hollywood would like everyone, particularly itself, to wear a cheerful face...
Counted Like Men. Before the convention even opened in Portland's massive Masonic Temple, Murray warmed up by attacking the Red-run New York C.I.O. Council. His executive board ordered the council dissolved because of its "slavish adherence" to the Communist Party line. The council, once a power in New York politics, would be reorganized by the right wing and probably headed by the reformed Mike Quill...
...this works was demonstrated last week by the case of Mosa Pijade, vice president of the Yugoslavia National Assembly, who was looked upon in some quarters as a possible leader of the anti-Tito faction in Belgrade. Pijade disappointed the hopeful by publishing a slavish defense of Tito in the party organ, Borba. The Cominform charges, said Pijade, were "violent and unscrupulous . . . full of inaccuracies and calumny...
...being foisted upon the American public ... to realize that today's copywriter-bred on copy research-has become a virtual Katzenjammer Kid ... giving readers and listeners mental and spiritual hotfoots hour after hour, every day in the year." Radio copywriters, said Weir, are among the worst offenders: "Through slavish obeisance to Hooperatings [see RADIO] . . . [radio] has become largely hackneyed and stereotyped...
...carrying her packages, ask them to drive her car, or come in the middle of the night to do copying for her. Students either enter into the spirit of things or leave. Nadia Boulanger is a classicist who regards classicism as an attitude and a discipline, rather than a slavish conformity to formula. Says she: "Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains...