Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change, as the accent on the news changed. You will recall, for instance, that in the May 1, 1939 issue TIME'S editors introduced a new, occasional department, Background For War, dedicated to the proposition that world war was close at hand and that you would understand it better if we reviewed the events which led up to it. The week the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland Background gave way to another new department, World War. As the war progressed we added Army & Navy and World Battlefronts, changed National Affairs to U.S. At War, dropped World War and, when...
Either Secretary Tobin had not done his homework on the law in the case or he did not understand what he had studied, but he tried again. No President, he said, would ever permit the economy of the U.S. "to be brought to its knees in a great national emergency." That didn't have to mean an injunction, he said. "He [the President] might handle it differently." But Tobin could not think what a "different" method might...
...Communists, who have their own martyrs, well understand the saying "Blood of martyrs, seed of the church." They sought to remove Mindszenty, who stood in their way, but above all they sought to cheat him of his martyr's crown. Thus last week Mindszenty appeared in court, "confessing" and "recanting...
...concert concluded with the Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la Fee." Although this was the most melodic of the material played and the easiest to understand, it did not impress me much one way or the other. The writing is clever but essentially empty...
...chilly Wiesbaden home last week, Walter Gieseking, one of the five greatest living pianists,* huddled close to a small iron stove. He wrote a statement for the German press: "The German people may not understand what has happened in New York . . . They might think all America was demonstrating." But, in his opinion, "the demonstrators were only a small minority, just excited people...