Word: prosperous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deadlier blandishments. The film's limitations are largely those of its star, though it manages some tension in such rough & tumble scenes as the one where Don José and Garcia (Victor Jory) hack at each other with trowel-sized knives. The story is based on the Prosper Mérimée novel and does not make use of the music from Bizet's opera. It is prettier and more exciting than the opera could ever be without the score-but nothing about it begins to match Bizet's music...
Songs & Candles. The Church of Christ, they thought, ought to be a united fellowship of all believers. They plotted to nudge their congregations into eventual unity, and for a while the experiment seemed to prosper on joint choir recitals, Christmas festivals and church socials. But when the two eager young pastors frankly talked merger to a joint meeting of their church boards, they learned something about the wellsprings of faith...
Texas, of course, has its fair share of demagogues, rabble rousers and just plain exhibitionists, many of whom are continually running for office. They thrive and prosper on just such free publicity as you have given Windmill Lyndon Johnson [TIME, June...
...Single Family." In 1922, Aristide Briand, greatest of France's 20th that it Century must "unite"- internationalists, not only warned "to prosper" but "to live." This was only four years after the "war to end war." In 1871, when France was crumbling under Prussian force, the author of Les Miserables spoke up. Said Victor Hugo: "I will demolish my fortresses. You will demolish yours. My vengeance, it is fraternity. No more frontiers, the Rhine for all! Let us be the same Republic! Let us have the United States of Europe, let us have Continental federation, let us have European...
...News will prosper only when the business staff is faced with the necessity of bringing in more revenue on its own initiative. It will improve only when the editorial staff realizes that only a live, vigorous paper will attract subscribers. The artificial crutch of compulsory subscriptions accomplishes neither of these objectives. Other newspapers in the Big Seven group of Colleges get along by themselves. Smith and Vassar each have two unsubsidized newspapers. Radcliffe can surely...