Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George and Lennie escaping their pursuers by jumping a freight, until George shoots Lennie through the head to save him from a posse, there is scarcely a word, gesture or incident too much. More tender than the tough stage version, the impact of the picture is tough and raw enough...
Last week Washington correspondents hammering out their forecasts could not agree on a name for the '30s as apt as the title of the Tragic Era had been for Reconstruction. But their prophecies and backward looks combined to give the raw material that would enable future historians to characterize that decade-a purgatorial period that followed a fool's paradise, a time of confusion and panic, of scrimping, self-pity, despair, of painful reform of the social system, a time when Al Capone and Richard Whitney at last went to jail and many a liberal as stubborn...
...more important than these exchanges, Sweden promised: 1) to use all her maritime imports for home consumption (except such as may be forwarded to Finland); 2) not to import more strategic raw materials (like copper and nickel) than she did before the war; 3) not to use more than specified amounts of for eign raw materials in manufactures for export (such as telephones). In return for these promises, Britain promised to expedite clearance of Swedish ships through Allied control ports, and offered naval convoy to Swedish trade ships (each Swedish owner to decide this point for himself...
...reviewer has had in a long while concerns Red Norvo. Red is my opinion is one of the greatest musicians in the business. Excluding his undoubted ability on xylophone, he has a sharper and better trained ear, and an ability to get what he wants out of even a raw band that no one else seems to have. However, due to men being taken away from him by leaders who could afford better payrolls, Red has had man after man swiped away from him. Climax came when arranger Eddie Sauter left to go with Benny Goodman...
...expect to do better, Paul Raver's retort was the Aluminum Co. contract. "A nice Christmas present," he called it. He now expects to convince many more processors (chiefly of metals and chemicals) that they can save enough with ultracheap power to pay for the long hauls of raw materials and finished goods...