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...feeling of depression wrought upon me by the present status of American "Fine Art" is offset only by a passionate hatred for the critics who have brought this condition about. The shame is not that we have no great masters of fine art, the shame is that those with talent enough are discouraged from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 26, 1948 | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...Woman In White (Warner), Wilkie Collins' mid-Victorian melodrama, has enough plot for a dozen ordinary movies-and a lot too much for one, unless that one is done brilliantly. This production is sound, rather than brilliant. Chunk by chunk it is patiently, intricately wrought and highly polished; but the chunks have to be shoved around like so many massive pieces of Victorian furniture. Those who made the film have taken a pretty good, but no longer very believable book a great deal too seriously. Treated with less respect, it might have been turned into a lively, believable movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...hard," he said, but "our work and that of future generations will help regulate the complex civilization wrought by physical science and technology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bridgman, Stouffer Disagree About International Role of Social Science | 4/21/1948 | See Source »

...their right arms the conquest must be wrought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Captain of the Crags | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...members to Los Angeles' stuccoed St. Paul Baptist Church at the rate of 18 a day. It now takes five cops to control Sunday crowds that jam the street out in front to listen over a loudspeaker (and six nurses inside for worshipers who get too wrought-up). The choir's weekly radio program is broadcast to 17 states. Two months ago Capitol Records began putting the choir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: We Sing to Lift | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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