Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smooth sailing. In Eugene a group of student hecklers from the University of Oregon plopped down in the front row, diligently leafed through copies of LIFE with a picture of Harold Stassen on the cover. In Portland, Dewey refused a drink of bourbon offered by a local politico, ducked out for his own bottle of Scotch. Commented a local columnist: "Out West here, podner, men have been shot for refusing to drink out of the common cookin' likker bottle and then showing up with their own pizen...
...slice of Long Island or California civilization-the American colony. This week the local baseball season got into full swing; Tempelhof airbase invited all American girls to the "Stateside Stomp" in the Skyrider Ballroom; everything from keel boats to canoes and kayaks is skimming the Wannsee's smooth, sunny waters. This is little America, APO 742-A, including bingo, jukeboxes, dog shows, fashion shows and horse shows...
Lisa (Joan Fontaine), a girl in her middle teens, falls hopelessly in love with a smooth concert pianist (Louis Jourdan) who takes rooms across the hall. Busy with more full-blown girls, he scarcely realizes that she exists. When her family moves, Lisa cannot endure the separation; she runs away, and haunts certain Viennese coffee houses and street corners until the pianist picks her up. During their short affair her lover experiences a faint glimmer of tenderness which might end his philandering, but it doesn't register strongly enough for him to bother looking her up when he returns...
...legs. The more "neutral" and "uniform" a product is, the more comfortable he finds it. The 19th Century gardener grew 30 kinds of apples in his orchard, ranging in taste from bitter to sweet. Today, "the large red apple" caters to the public love of all that is "sweet, smooth, and outwardly appealing." Bread, which was once the crusty staff of life, is now "half-masticated . . . before reaching the mouth," and caters to the taste which prefers fruit juice to fruit, chopped meat to a cut off the joint, mashed potato, ice cream, and a host of packaged powders which...
...Worldling. No crusader, but an able newsman on a left-of-center course, is smooth, bespectacled Joe Barnes, 41, brother of Howard Barnes, the Trib's drama critic. (A third brother, Bernard, is assistant to TIME'S Vice President Howard Black.) A professor's son who was Crimson president at Harvard ('27), Joe Barnes did postgraduate work at the University of London's King's College and has batted around the world for 20 years as a student, a researcher for the Institute of Pacific Relations, and a journalist. A prewar Herald Tribune correspondent...