Word: text
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear about one thing: there is no defense against a surprise attack with atomic bombs." With this statement as his text, President Conant Tuesday addressed a sermon to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce...
...anniversary speeches in Moscow (see above) were far overshadowed, in importance and revealing detail, by an other speech - made last August. The speech was delivered by Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. TIME Correspondent Craig Thompson got the text last week, and found in it the best report in years on how it is with Russia...
...libretto for War and Peace, the Tolstoyan opera which had its tryout last March. Stalin had promised to let Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera produce it, but after its Moscow premiere, War and Peace was hastily withdrawn for reworking. Soviet critics objected mostly to Mira's unwieldy text...
...avoid seeming emotionally dated. Another trouble is that Playwright Sherwood never really comes to grips with the liberal's precise role in the present world. He would have had a harder hitting play if, instead of leafing through the whole testament, he had concentrated on one good text. There is scattered good talk, fitful eloquence, passingly sharp incident, in The Rugged Path-but the play as a whole is a tangled Sherwood Forest of ideas...
Kiss and Tell (Columbia), from the Broadway hit play of two years ago, makes it fairly plain that parents cause more trouble than they're worth. But the film preaches so good-naturedly to its text that even parents shouldn't mind putting the price of admission in the plate...