Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the group broke up, almost every officer knew 200 words of Kuo-yu, or Man darin, and most had fair accents. They still could not read a single Chinese character. But to learn to read Chinese is a separate and infinitely laborious...
...Mozart: Concerto No. 12 (K.414) for Piano and Orchestra (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with Louis Kentner; Columbia; 6 sides). First U.S. release of a European recording of one of Mozart's most ingratiating concertos. Performance: fair. Recording: good. Johann Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz (NBC Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor). A fascinating illustration of a great conductor's weakness. Maestro Toscanini's Danube is a swift torrent of molten lava. Recording: fair...
Hunter's Aim. Yet few could doubt that Dr. Shuster's aim was what he said it was: to protect everybody's feelings in a college community of 10,000 hard-working girls. Wisconsin-born President Shuster is no doctrinaire scholar, but a lively example of fair-mindedness. He is a Notre Dame graduate who publicly protested when Notre Dame's 'president tried to clamp university censorship on the off-campus liberal speeches of Associate Professor Francis Elmer McMahon (TIME, Dec. 20). President Shuster wrote his forthcoming book on Germany with Dr. Arnold Bergstraesser...
There is a lot of ardent acting in Passage to Marseille, a fair amount of excitement, and a large, generous intention to show France, and Frenchmen, at their worst and best. But this important intention, even when it becomes articulate, struggles like a fly in molasses against the pseudo-solemn theatricality with which the film is conceived and executed...
...well past midnight when we hit the fair city, and an hour later found us fast asleep in room 427 of the Mount Royal Hotel, amid the visions of sugar plums which traditionally dance nightly in the heads of those as pure of heart...