Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia, said Laski, is "aware that it can't fight a major war with any degree of success. . . . The Russians are afraid of you and they will go as far as they can until you tell them to stop." But, he added, "the gentlemen in the Kremlin-and some of them are not gentlemen-rather naturally take the view that your policy in international affairs is semi-paralyzed until November. They're gathering rosebuds while they...
Communist reaction was significant. In Prague, the speech was suppressed. In Moscow, the press gave it 18 lines on the day after its delivery. At Lake Success, Andrei Gromyko unwittingly made the funniest comment of an intensely serious week. The speech, he said, was "propaganda for internal American consumption...
...second Sheets exhibition, which opened in Los Angeles' State Exposition Building almost simultaneously with the first, showed something of his range and of his success. On the walls were menu covers for a steamship line, designs for his pastel-painted airports, drawings done as a LIFE war artist in India, silk-screen prints, lithographs and photographs of buildings on which he had collaborated, sculptures done for a chichi Hollywood bar, a huge restaurant mural in mosaic. "People think of me as a watercolorist," says Sheets, "because I've painted so many. Watercolors can be done in a hurry...
Died. Maude Howe Elliott, 93, last survivor of the four daughters of Julia Ward Howe (Battle Hymn of the Republic), civic leader and chronicler of Newport, R.I.; in Newport. Existing in a climate of literary and artistic success all her life, she gained recognition herself by writing the minor sagas of the people and places she knew well (My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford; This Was My Newport), won the 1917 Pulitzer Prize (with Sister Laura E. Richards) for Julia Ward Howe, a two-volume biography of her mother...
...frequently reduced to the scale of gracious sentimentality. The moral complexities of the subject are dealt with so shyly that one can scarcely be sure they are consciously dealt with at all.-Despite its lack of real-life vitality (as in Shoeshine The Search may be a popular success. If so, it will help Hollywood find the courage for more such ventures. A studio willing to go the whole hog in daring-i.e., to tackle so powerful a subject, entrust it to strong men with bold ideas, guarding only against artiness and pretension-would be in serious danger...