Word: unkindnesses
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...most sacred book, the Koran, Moslems fasted, prayed and meditated. Their uncompromising fast made similar Christian regulations seem lax by comparison. It required a rigid total abstinence from food and drink each day, between dawn and sunset, mostly in climates where the tropical sun is especially unkind to such self-denial...
Variety's only real trade-paper rival is the Hollywood Reporter (circ. about 7,000). An unkind line in the gossip columns of either journal can ruin a Hollywood breakfast, bring final collapse to a shaky reputation, endanger an expensive production or send shudders through an entire studio. The Manhattan executive branches of the movie companies (available to Sheilah through her column m the New York Daily Mirror) also read the gossipists carefully for unflattering news and views of the West Coast. No one in movies is entirely safe from the heavy-heavy that Parsons, Hopper, Graham and other...
From this premise* and from the title of her book, I Never Grew Up, it might be assumed that the whole life of the celebrated belle (and managing mother of an equally celebrated one) has been wasted. The assumption would be both hasty and unkind. In its own gossipy fashion, Author Wright's autobiography is something of a personal history of the 20th century. It is also a record of one of the most buoyant egos ever hatched...
There were some mild cheers on Capitol Hill for the new special investigator, and also a few unkind cuts. The Senate subcommittee digging into sales at exorbitant profits of war surplus tankers let out reminders that a foundation headed by Morris is involved. (Morris has denied any personal gain from the transactions.) Michigan's Representative Charles E. Potter, an un-American Activities committeeman, accused Morris of having spoken before Communist-front groups ("Asinine," retorted Morris). Such G.O.P. men as Robert Taft and Richard Nixon could see nothing but a planned whitewash in the Morris inquiry...
Fanaticism Finished. Most Germans these days live by and for themselves. They are, in the main, unkind to each other. They lack confidence in any community and are skeptical of new sacrifices for the common interest. Thus there is little prospect that German resentments will take the form of organized violence...