Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the wild animals at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo were killed by their keepers who feared they might escape during air raids. Since then, visitors who daily flock to the zoo have had to content themselves with housecats, hogs, a Jersey cow, stuffed lions & tigers. The government has been deluged with children's pleas that real live wild animals, especially elephants, be restored to the Ueno Zoo, but exchange difficulties have made it practically impossible...
Toward Frankfurt. Comments on McCloy's appointment as U.S. High Commissioner in Germany last week came from varied sources but were monotonous in content. George Marshall, Robert Lovett, Historian Douglas Southall Freeman, British Socialist Hugh Dalton, all said, in effect: "They couldn't have picked a better man." Some of McCIoy's friends, however, were sorry he took the job. McCloy knows it's tough. "No doubt about it," he said last week, "it's going to be a windy corner...
...What do these miserable pensions mean? They mean that retired priests . . . must be content with a room or two in a stranger's house; they mean living on bread and margarine and vegetables . . . They mean that to eke out their miserable dole of $76 per month, the wife of three-score years and ten must compete with high-school girls for a job as baby-sitter...
...these are, in the long run, minor criticisms of style rather than content. The people who produced "Home of the Brave" and acted in it had something important on their minds, and they spoke it out with great clarity and courage. For James Edwards, who played the young Negro soldier, there can be nothing but the highest praise. He lived his part, as he has all his life...
...Coles has a theory of aesthetics, it apparently is one which admits the moral content of a work of art to be a valid basis for criticizing it. There are several schools of theory ensconced in this opinion; one of them centers in Moscow. I do not share this opinion. As long as a work of art is not conscious propaganda, its criticism must be amoral. The criterion should be: is this a sensitive and powerful expression of the artist's feeling? Right, wrong, social value, middle-class morality etc. should never enter into artistic criticism. Granted, artists are deeply...