Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true. He who had worn black for anarchists hanged after the Haymarket riots,* and who chiefly wrote of simple peasant lives, had ranged himself beside the Gestapo. To the big, white country house which success had brought him, after harsh years of poverty, winds bring the cool fragrance of sea and kelp, of grass and Norwegian earth. Outside the maples whisper. But in the house, now crammed with a painful store of books, the man who always loved solitude had won it, at last, in bitter measure...
...Petrillo had another battle on his hands. Next fortnight the Government hopes to slap an injunction on Petrillo to end his boycott against recordings. On hand to push the Government's case will be Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold. So far Trust-Buster Arnold has had no great success in his brushes with organized labor. But this time he has popular opinion behind him. A Gallup Poll question, "Do you approve or disapprove of the Government taking legal action to stop Petrillo?" turned up a 73% chorus of ayes...
...Committee on Freshman Affairs has put a lot of thought and effort into making its program a success. It has probably spent more time working and planning than any other such organization at Harvard, and for this it should be commended. That their program has been unsuccessful shows either that the approach has been wrong, or that integration, once thought of as a cure-all for the entering classes caught in the wave of the accelerated program, is an aim which means nothing to Freshmen...
...great sickness of modern music is not any lack of talent, resources, or opportunities. A composer today has fare more chance of success than was the case in Europe until Wagner's time. We have a plethora of composers: What we lack is men writing music. Shostakovitch, the most talented and promising of the moderns, is a case in point. In his recent Seventh symphony, which Haggin of the "Nation," a top-notch critic, called "pretentious, feeble, inane, and banal," he was trying to express the heroic character of the time we live in although his own nature is unwarlike...
Died. Alice Duer Miller, 68, popular U.S. novelist, whose long poem, The White Cliffs, became her biggest success; in Manhattan. Her books became popular musicomedies, motion pictures (Come Out of the Kitchen; Roberta). The White Cliffs was published at the beginning of the London blitz. Read over the air by Lynn Fontanne, it sold over 200,000 copies in the U.S., 100,000 in England. Its loose-rhythmed, nearly conversational verse was intended to say "all the truth I could about England." She concluded: ". . . In a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live...