Word: tending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Turning to the problem of international squabbles, Shapley rapped American complacency: "We tend to think that the cleavage comes from the Kremlin, and not from Wall Street, as Wallace said or from Washington...
...issue. He asked: "How many editors . . . cite each other to open debate; what Hearst has flung down the gauntlet to what New York Times-or vice versa? . . . I fear it is simply not the case that in the profuse and unordered public expression of today the best views tend to prevail...
Taylor's incidental anecdotes, sketches of military and political leaders, descriptions of Indian scenes and atmospheres give a concrete context to his meditations-which tend to run on at times. His book is loosely stitched together, but it has a generous, large and lucid air, living up to its title...
...other question provoked such strong feeling among the authors. Dos Passos declared he wanted no part of Hollywood, bluntly accused it of "trashifying literature." Along with Hollywood he lumped "the best-seller system and the book clubs which tend to standardize reading tastes on a mediocre level. Writers go to Hollywood thinking they can improve the medium. They can't. The medium destroys them. The compromise always works to their detriment. This is particularly bad for talented young writers who can't resist Hollywood gold at a time when they would normally be struggling along on a shoestring...
Gardeners, Miners, Vintners. In the hot July sun, people tend the little vegetable gardens from which other people steal by night, and gardeners and thieves both act from the same motive-to store food against the awful winter ahead. In Bavaria, a famous movie actor who played leading roles in Nazi anti-Semitic films, is cleared by a denazification board, and before another Spruchkammer in the U.S. zone appears a former high official of the late Ribbentrop's Foreign Office, likewise to walk away a free...