Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David Work Griffith, 73, wonder man of the early cinema, received an interviewer in his Hollywood hotel room and spoke frankly. "I thought I was a great genius," he recalled wryly. "That was a lot of baloney. . . . There has been no improvement in movies since the old days. . . . They have not improved in stories. I don't know that they've improved in anything. What the modern movie lacks is beauty . . . they have forgotten movement in the moving picture-it's all still and stale...
...long as America does not do these things, she allows Frenchmen and Belgians to wonder if, after all, they would really be defended, or if they would have coldly to comfort themselves with the promise of another liberation...
...stockmarket, in the face of fat earnings and general prosperity, last week drifted down to a new low for the year, traders began to wonder just what Wall Street would consider encouraging news to investors. In midweek they found out. President Truman's speech to Congress, which seemed to promise a baby armament boom, started stocks moving up. At the same time, the prospects for earlier passage of ERP promised a boost to sagging exports; and the hope that the income-tax cut could probably be passed even over a presidential veto promised to help business all along...
...wonder, then, that "Don Giovanni" has earned its rank as first among operas. Fritz Busch, another grand old name around the Met, did a magnificent job with his orchestra. Particularly commendable was his handling of the dance scene in Act II, when three small on-stage orchestras are playing a waltz, a gavotte, and a minuet, all combined with the pit orchestra in an ingenious contrapuntal pattern. Opera orchestras are not always as skillful as they might be, but this week has shown no deficiencies along that line...
...President's program would accomplish its aims. What will United States military force be able to achieve if, for example, Italy actually elects a government controlled by Communists? Will we fight? If we determine to act in this manner hope for peace will in effect vanish. One will wonder if we have done any line-drawing or bluff-calling...