Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear now except for two things. If all these people, like Lubitsch and Hoffenstein, are as good as you say they are, how can they be as bad as you say they are? And why has "Cluny Brown" been a popular success...
...Intelligence Chief Brigadier General Edwin L. Sibert, whose strong-arm raiding squads have manhandled many a German Communist inside the U.S. zone, took over the Russian prisoners. For 34 days they were held near Frankfurt, interrogated twice daily. The Russians later said that they were "accused impudently but without success of espionage." To General Kotikov, the Russian commandant in Berlin, the U.S. commander, Major General Frank A. Keating, denied any knowledge of the missing Russians. Kotikov decided to bring a little pressure...
...drama, joined in instructions and demonstrations that ranged from how to walk on stage to how to produce a play. Said one bespectacled girl: "It's been 100%. Absolutely something for everyone." Sheffield's school was the biggest practical effort the R.D.S. has seen so far. Its success has already led to planning courses like it in three other cities...
R.D.S. does not put on plays, but rents its sets of plays to amateur groups, gives them free dramatic advice. Part of the advice is Martin Browne's definition of the objective of a religious play-and the secret of his success...
Professor Northrop's analysis of Russia faces the fact of Communist success: of the deliberate, swift and powerful application of a philosophy, Marx's, in human history. The Marxian dialectic was too rigid for the facts. But at least "it was high time that economic and political theory . . . treated man as a creature with a body, having continuous energy requirements in the form of food to maintain even his human existence...