Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Professional Joe Martin, back in Washington, bronzed from the Nassau sun, repeated his determination to resign in the spring as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Said he of an amateur: "Mr. Willkie would make a splendid chairman and I think the Republican Party would be delighted to have him, but whether it would fit into his plans I do not know...
...real significance of Queen Ann's visit to Harvard, though, lies deep in the hearts of the boys at the studio who think her charm, ready wit, and unassuming manner maker her Harvard's sweetheart. And she loves Harvard "gentlemen...
...contribution to the current Sibelius festival, Columbia has brought out a new recording of the Second Symphony played by Barbirolli and the New York Philharmonic. Whatever one may think of this symphony--which has elicited for Olin Downes the tribute of "a symbol of the ancient faiths and indomitable spirit of man"--and from other critics something less than blind enthusiasm--whatever, I say, one thinks of it, one cannot deny its dramatic power and effectiveness. This dramatic power is what John Barbirolli fails to recreate. He is in general a pedestrian conductor, lacking the ability to envision a whole...
...talk as one person, in a continuous flow of words. Sample: "(Ida) People have always tried to separate us, but we prefer to be together. (Freda) We seem to be sympathetic types; there is something we get from one another. (Ida) Besides it really increases our production, people think we are bears for work because we do two pictures while someone else does one. (Freda) We are really very prolific...
Forced to think about Percy Bysshe Shelley, most people visualize something with wild hair, wild eyes, a decollete shirt, poised to intone: "Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" Responsible for this conception is Shelley's official biographer, Professor Edward Dowden, and a whole school of Victorian apologists. They have busily sold Shelley as an inspired listener to skylarks, with an unfortunate but irrelevant "interest in social revolution. Critic-Poet Francis Thompson advised would-be Shelleyans to "peep over the wild mass of revolutionary metaphysics" and discover...