Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unsafe Condition." Even the setting was special. To Moscow, the Central Committee summoned a hundred or so top-rank philosophers, professors, theoreticians, for a nine-day conference. Assembled, they learned that the subject of discussion was to be Aleksandrov's History of Western European Philosophy. Only a year before, it had been awarded a 100,000 ruble Stalin prize. To this startled group, Zhdanov laid down the Central Committee's charges against Aleksandrov: 1) he had preached a "toothless vegetarianism" toward the philosophical enemies of Marx-Lenin-Stalin; 2) perhaps unsuspectingly, he had become "the prisoner of bourgeois...
...week starting Friday, Sept. 5. All times are E.D.T., subject to change...
...Perhaps no one would deny that Christianity is now 'on the map' among the younger intelligentsia, as it was not, say, in 1920. Only freshmen now talk as if the anti-Christian position were self-evident. . . . [Yet] we must remember that widespread and lively interest in the subject is precisely what we call a fashion. . . . Whatever . . . mere fashion has given us, mere fashion will presently withdraw. The real conversions will remain, but nothing else will. In that sense we may be on the brink of a real, permanent Christian revival: but it will work slowly and obscurely...
...Unfortunately," Maloney lamented in his Saturday Review of Literature profile of the New Yorker, "it is a story which nobody is able to tell. No man . . . has been the subject of so much analysis, interpretation, and explanation, with so little concrete result. For more than 21 years he has belched and wrangled and improvised and compromised and given his subscribers a magazine every seven days. He still works hard; except for a few sports columns and foreign newsletters which come in over the weekend, he works on every bit of copy that goes into the magazine...
...subject and story, Shoeshine is deceptively modest. It traces the gradual destruction of two boys of the Roman streets, twelve-year-old Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni) and his close friend, 14-year-old Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi). They are attractive and resourceful children, at first appearance, living the anarchic, hand-to-mouth life of most of Italy during the chaotic period between the Italian and German surrenders. Then they become front men for Giuseppe's older brother, in a small-time black market deal. They are caught and locked up for questioning. If they had informed on their elders promptly, they...