Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sanders' playing of the brutal genius. One of the few cinemactors with any real presence, Sanders has for years been using it to put starch into supporting parts and B pictures. The Moon & Sixpence gives him his first big chance. It also puts his fine performance in a vacuum...
...emotional attitudes, it can be a tremendous stimulus. For example, Beethoven wrote some of his best work during the German Wars of Liberation. Musical history seems to have developed steadily and independently of national upheavals, but there is no reason to suppose that composers live in an emotional vacuum. Good music may be "emotion recollected in tranquillity," but a composer has a skin to save, and knows the price which events place on the available peace of mind...
...fact that during the interval between the two world wars we were people without a faith. The first World War exhausted the spiritual springs within us. We wanted merely to be left alone. 'Security' became our only goal. It is, of course, impossible to perpetuate a spiritual vacuum throughout the world. Gradually new faiths began to be born. Unhappily they were not born in Britain, France or the U.S. We were the passive peoples upon whom operated the dynamic faiths born in Russia, Germany and Japan. And because the faiths of Germany and Japan found expression...
...Blue Network last week went the two fattest news "show" contracts of the year: a 15-minute commentary by Raymond Gram Swing for Socony-Vacuum four times a week at 10 p.m., and a 15-minute newscast by Earl Godwin for Ford Motor Co. at 8 p.m. daily...
Rommel Remains. This was all very well, but the object of modern desert war is to destroy the hostile armored forces, or to cripple them so badly that they must flee. That was what Rommel had done to the British before Tobruk, and the resulting vacuum had made easy his drive into Egypt. As yet neither British guns, tanks nor air force had made a dent on Rommel's Army...