Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME was off base in putting Lee at Manassas I, apologizes to some 50 readers from both North and South who protested. Lee had chosen the place (Bull Run) and mapped the tactical approach to battle, including the junction of Beauregard and Johnston, but when it was fought he was chafing at a desk in Richmond, where he had been left by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson might have been the Wavell of Manassas I. He vainly tried to persuade Beauregard, Johnston and Davis, who were conducting a post-mortem on the battlefield, to push on after...
...fast as they could get visas. Yugoslav oppositionists handed Prince Paul a memorandum complaining that the people were being told nothing. Presently police raided the headquarters of the oppositionist Democratic Party, seized its manifestoes and its leader, Milan Grol. It all had the familiar odor of the Hitler approach. At week's end it was reported that Yugoslavia had arranged a "compromise" with Adolf-Yugoslavia would be "nonaggressive" and would allow the Nazis to move down the Vardar Valley toward Greece. Next it was reported that Germany demanded full adherence to the Axis...
...Raymond Gallery was exhibiting some of Papa Hiler's paintings. The critics were pleasantly taken aback. Said the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "He sets up quite regular rhythmic patterns and then answers them in a kind of sudden, surprising syncopation. It is the nearest visual approach to hot jazz...
Lady in the Dark Album (Decca). Sibilant Hildegarde sings the Gertrude Lawrence part of the Hart-Gershwin-Weill musical. In the main, German Composer Kurt Weill has a baboo approach to U. S. musical idiom, e.g., Saga of Jenny, My Ship, This Is New. Good enough for anyone's piano is One Life To Live...
...slow show saved by some top-rung acting. Oliva de Haviland proffers a pleasing new approach, abandoning Melanie's sweet-souled idealism for a rougher characterization. Alan Hale as a street-cleaner and wife-wolfer is huge and gives the customers a few hearty giggles. Cagney's successful plodding is beautifully contrasted against the strawberry blonde's hypocritical and disastrous social climbing...