Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what holds for writers is just as true for musicians. The latest Soviet artist to feel the sting of Zhdanov's whip was once-favored Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Loudly hailed as "a triumph of our great victory" at its premiere, Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony was described last week by the Central Committee's Culture and Life as a "playful and fanciful trifle . . . sharp and screaming" and hopelessly lacking in "warm, ideological conviction." It was probably, conceded the young composer's critic charitably, the fault of undue influence by expatriate Russian Composer Stravinsky, "an artist without...
...girl plunge into a peculiar marital conflict. Bing makes his living by buying & selling successful nightclubs. He plainly enjoys his work and does well enough at it to provide the little woman with striking Edith Head gowns and the smartest interiors that Paramount's art department can whip together. But Joan is terribly depressed by it all. Bing's admittedly eccentric profession fills her with deep insecurity and a sense of her husband's unstable character. Fortunately, while she broods about her soap opera dilemma, Bing has an opportunity to sing snatches of some 21 lovely songs...
...term congressional elections can be pretty dull affairs when there is no presidential contest to whip up enthusiasm for platforms to accentuate party differences. The coming elections in November promise no deviation from this tradition. Despite some introductory fanfares and blatant hog-calling at state conventions, indications are that both major political parties are resolved in giving the public a rather murky presentation of the basic issues at stake...
...came time to defend it last February, Red passed up Sugar Ray, who was first in line, fought one Marty Servo, who had put up $50,000 for the chance. Marty took the title by a knockout. Last week Sugar Ray was 1-to-5 betting favorite to whip Marty Servo...
...international ringmaster, Juan Domingo Perón had a busy week. He cracked the whip on the home front, played with the Russian bear, blew his whistle at the British lion, kept a wary eye on closer neighbors...