Word: standings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in the grandiose splendors of the Library of Congress, two attendants on the second-floor gallery carefully wrestled a 17-inch square bronze frame into a metal stand. One of wrathful King John's four copies, brown and dim with age, its Latin screed legible only to the learned, now rested safe in Washington, capital of a nation two centuries undiscovered when the barons camped at Runnymede...
...History has many curious and circuitous passages-many winding stairways which return upon themselves-but none more curious than the turn of time which brings the Great Charter of the English to stand across this gallery from the two great charters of American freedom...
Petrouchka, the puppet who came to life, had a counterpart in China last week. After months of adjusting the wires and setting the stage to dangle Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei before Chinese eyes, the Japanese were dismayed to see him wriggle a bit, stand up on his own legs, and come right out with some shockingly out-of-character statements...
...playwright who long ago wrote What Price Glory? and Saturday's Children has gradually given way to a fuzzy cosmos-gazer. Anderson is the most flatulent and pretentious of U. S. dramatists because he seldom does justice to his grandiose conceptions. The verse of Key Largo will not stand comparison with such contemporary dramatic poetry as T. S. Eliot's or Archibald MacLeish's. So little feeling, indeed, has Anderson for fit words that his people talk like stilted schoolmasters as well as windy poets : a businessman, for example, refers to gangsters as "banditti." Worst...
...economic changes are obviously necessary before the world's way of life can be brought to the perfection they seek. It is clear that Lord Halifax, while he may approve world union in principle, will oppose these very changes with all his power. Everything he and his party stand for--"reality," empire, and British hegemony--will have to be swept aside if world union is to come. It will be a tremendous job, but if the men who are trying it now are wiser and more far-sighted than those in the past, they will come just that much closer...