Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea in mind, M. Cocteau has chosen to present the Tristan-Iseult legend in contemporary settings and in something of the same grand-manner that was to be so successful in his later film "Beauty and the Beast." But, unlike its successor, "The Eternal Return" asks the audience to accept its fairy tale as readily as if it were in today's headlines: "IRATE MATE SPRINGS LOVE TRAP--Wife and Lover Found Souped-up on Love Potion...
...Resolved, That the Harvard Student Council is willing to accept responsibility for bringing student DP's to northern New England colleges...
...corpse of the CBS correspondent, an outspoken opponent of the Greek Loyalist government, was found floating in the Gulf of Salonika on May 16, just a few days before he was to have returned home to accept a Nieman fellowship at Harvard. His hands and feet were bound and there was a bullet hole in the back of his head...
Judging by the new play at the Copley this week, Ruth Gordon, the actress, should get herself a new playwright. And, at the same time, Ruth Gordon, the playwright, should put away her copy of Arthur Wing Pinero or Henry Arthur Jones and accept the report that Belasco is dead. "The Leading Lady," the play involving the two Miss Gordons (both of whom are married to the play's director--which suggests a dilemma more interesting than the current play) is an unreal bit of pink fluff that might be found floating about in the mind of some stage-struck...
...continue his sheetmaking department (which employs 1,000 of his 3,500 workers) "as long as it remains profitable." Little also picked up some ammunition for his case against New England's easygoing textile workers. When he offered to keep the entire plant open if the workers would accept a heavier work load and increase production, the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union called the proposal an insult...