Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Affable Mr. Byrnes then said that the Foreign Ministers had worked hard, that they deserved a reward, that there was turkey on the sideboard. Mr. Molotov made a joke: he said that Turkey was not on the agenda. In view of "The Hammer's" new reasonableness, the least the others could do was to laugh heartily and politely...
What Lenin Thought. In the long view, Russia's internal distress would not contribute to world amity. But in the immediate context of 1946, it had the effect of enforcing on the Russian leaders conformity with James F. Byrnes's painfully developed policy of resisting Russian expansion by "patience and firmness." Byrnes had ended the easy growth of Russia's foreign influence; before the Kremlin was ready for the really strenuous efforts required to buck the Byrnes line, it had to turn its attention homeward, where chubby Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Stalin's deputy in the party...
This week Ralston Crawford's painted reports were reproduced in the December FORTUNE and went on view in a Manhattan gallery. The closest thing to nature in his blast pictures was an occasional circle (representing portholes) which he included for the sake of contrast "as you would show the whiteness of a wall by putting a thumbprint on it." His Test Able was a pat, flat imitation of chaos...
Such an all-around background has given him a balanced view even of Basic English. He laughs off the nation that he wants to force anyone, including himself, to speak only Basic. "It's too dull!" he exclaims. "You can't swear...
Most spectacular of the proofs, from the student body's point of view, was the joint demonstration by the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Veterans Theater, who teamed up willy-nilly to illustrate the undeniable fact that there is now no available stage from which a college-sized organization can operate with any degree of comfort. Hampered by University restrictions on what can and what cannot be done to the physical properties of Sanders Theater, the HDC had to work something of a seene-shifting miracle, operate without benefit of a curtain, and speak their lines in an acoustical monstrosity...