Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Drama Critics Circle met last week and managed, with little dissent, to pick its favorites of the season. The best U.S. play: Death of a Salesman, a deeply human story of a typical American who so craves success that he is fatally crushed by failure (TIME, Feb. 21). The best foreign play: The Madwoman of Chaillot, an enchanting fantasy about a wacky countess who, Pied Piper-like, rids Paris of its human rats (TIME, Jan. 10). The best musical: South Pacific, a sort of child of Madame Butterfly by Mister Roberts, brilliantly produced with Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...
Parliament rang with "Hear! Hear!" Editorialists cheered. The man-in-the-pub took it all with quiet satisfaction. Dissent was small indeed-but sharp. Cried Communist Harry Pollitt: "The U.S. wants to use this country as its unsinkable aircraft carrier and base for the dispatch of the atomic bomb...
French cheers were less solid than British, French dissent more furious and determined. Snarled Communist Boss Maurice Thorez: "Hypocritical phrases and lies . . . Today there rises the ghost of the new war . . We are now chained to the war chariot of the American billionaires." L'Humanité shrilled: "The war pact is signed...
...Orleans jazz grew up together. Louis says: "Jazz and I grew up side by side when we were poor." The wonder is that both jazz and Louis emerged from streets of brutal poverty and professional vice-jazz to become an exciting art, Louis to be hailed almost without dissent as its greatest creator-practitioner...
...Steel's extra cut to its stockholders implied that steelmen expected the boom to continue. Said U.S. Steel's Chairman Irving S. Olds: "There has been little letup, almost no letup, in demand for steel." Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene Grace entered a mild dissent: he had already detected some "softening in demand for many lines of steel." But Grace, who may have hoped by such talk to ease some of Washington's pressure for steel expansion, was not really pessimistic. Said he: "Even with the softening, I feel pretty safe in saying that our schedules...