Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been left untried, from such propaganda devices as the macabre reopening of the State Opera to the kidnaping of courageous German socialists who have resisted being swallowed up by the Communists. No tool has been left unused, from woolly-minded American officials to former Goebbels hirelings and Nazi youth leaders. Occasionally Soviet organization has not been equal to its task, as when the collapse of Russian Army discipline in the moment of victory resulted in a vast, hideous carnival of raping and looting. But the long objective, of transforming Germany into a decisive westward extension of the Soviet system...
...Zvezda condemned for ignoring "the vital foundation of the Soviet system, its political policy" and "spreading a spirit of obsequiousness to the contemporary bourgeois culture of the West." With obsequious haste, the Leningrad writers' union voted to abandon "the theory of pure art" and, instead, "train Soviet youth in a high feeling of patriotism...
Shirley Temple taking a snort in her next picture was too much for W.C.T.U. President Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin to bear; she protested to the studio that youth everywhere might be inspired to do likewise. But the studio set her at ease; the drink would be something unthinkable-Scotch and bourbon mixed-and Shirley would spit it out in horror...
When Eddy Rozner plays the kind of "jazz" that the commissars approve-Russian folk-songs in bouncy dance time-Eddy has the admiration of Stalin himself. But sometimes he remembers the days of his youth when he visited the U.S., studied the jazz ways of Harlem, placed second to Louis Armstrong in an international hot trumpeters' contest in 1934. Then Eddy lets himself go, cuts out on St. Louis Blues, Choo Choo or Alexander's Ragtime Band...
...effort to assess the degree of that "unpreparedness" and an inquiry into U.S. relations with the rest of the world. For the most part, Correspondent Stowe writes in lumbering, low-gear journalese ("diabolical idealistic window-dressing to make cannon fodder out of the cream of their countries' youth," etc.), but certain of his assertions are perfectly plain. Among them: 1) the U.S. itself started the atomic armament race with the U.S.S.R.; 2) the U.S. with its concentrated seaboard metropolises could not protect itself as well as Russia, were matters to come to an atomic showdown...