Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...democracies, people tend to regard Fascists as an undifferentiated hostile mass. What this book reveals is that a Fascist party is not a concrete block. It is a human conglomerate, and a conglomerate crumbles. Agent in Italy reveals parts of this crumbling process and the human factors that are bringing it about. It also suggests that the process might be speeded up tremendously if a propaganda could be devised that offered to Fascists who are disillusioned with Fascism an alternative that was more than a vaguer version of totalitarian collectivism...
...inflame the public mind by a malicious distortion of facts which he did not want to check with me. If we were at peace, these tactics might be overlooked as the product of a witchcraft mind. . . . The doubts and anger which this and similar statements of Mr. Dies tend to arouse in the public mind might as well come from Goebbels himself so far as their practical effect is concerned. . . . The effect on our morale would be less damaging if Mr. Dies were on the Hitler payroll...
Among those who listen to broadcasts there are a few enemy agents in this country who derive from Nazi propaganda the cues for rumors that will tend to foster disunity among citizens. Professor Allport revealed. On of the best ways to run down enemy agents, he observed, is to ascertain the districts where rumors are most prevalent, and then try, if possible, to discover who is responsible for them...
...center Bill La Croix represent the champions Puritans on the hoofers sextet. The other wing post was awarded to Tom White of Dunster, while John Hull of Eliot and Lenny Cummings of the Dudley Ramblers were selected for the defense slots. Sam Mixer of Adams was picked to tend the goalie's nets on the mythical...
...fifth in the long run, but there is a lot of good stuff in it, especially the sombre and leisurely first movement which is the kind of drawn-out thematic development which he does to perfection in the first and third movements of the fifth. His fast movements tend to degenerate into mere bursts of nervous energy, but the smoothness of the orchestration keeps up the interest, and never lets you forget that here is one of the real masters of the orchestra. I noticed in the paper the other day that his seventh symphony was recently played in Moscow...