Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plot. Hoffman spoke softly. But his voice carried clearly across the Seine to the Hotel de Tabac, where an OEEC committee had been wrangling over a plan to loosen Europe's currency restrictions. Quickly, the committee reached a tentative agreement. If the details could be successfully worked out and agreed on, the plan would permit Western Europe's nations to buy more easily from each other, thereby relieving some of the strain on the U.S. economy...
Hoffman briskly nailed down the Communists' long-standing charge that ECA was a U.S. plot to divide Europe, by urging "the greatest possible stimulation of trade" between Western and Eastern Europe (except for military items). He underlined his point by allotting ECA dollar credits for purchases in Czechoslovakia and Finland. Asked about Polish coal and Yugoslav lumber, Hoffman answered: "We want you to buy in Europe, whether or not it's behind the Iron Curtain...
...painter: Giorgio de Chirico. The aging genius, who long ago ditched surrealism to imitate dead masters, was embarrassed, not pleased by the honor. He angrily sued the Biennial Committee for displaying his earlier indiscretions (which vastly outshine what he has done since). It was all part of a dirty plot to encourage the "commercial maneuvers" of the big art dealers, he said. He also wrote a letter to the press declaring that "It is simply ridiculous and injurious to call 'art' all these miscarriages of the human mind which are nothing but phenomena of decadence, impotence and incapacity...
Stravinsky likes to see movies, particularly Westerns ("Just the shooting of the guns and the simple plot") and the "picture comique." But he refuses to write music for them.* In a voice like a bass trombone with the slide all the way out, he says grandly: "I cannot submit myself to their rules and laws. Practical restrictions I have always welcomed; psychological restrictions, no! They say to me, 'Create atmosphere.' Comment? Create atmosphere! How can one? I am ashamed. I blush. I am absolutely incompetent to create atmosphere. I say to them, 'You must create the atmosphere...
...Neill's 15-year-old comedy of smalltown life in the Teddy Roosevelt era. In some respects, it is still fresh, for Director Rouben Mamoulian has attempted to follow on film the pattern he used on the stage with Oklahoma! Instead of unfolding in rigidly separated plot scenes and musical numbers, Summer Holiday was planned as a flowing synthesis of songs and dialogue...