Word: adrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music Magic," on the same bill, tells the story of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during the war. The movie is acted by actual Orchestra members, and therefore lacks professional finish. But if you're interested in seeing Constant Lambert, Sir Adrian Boult, and the Philharmonic in action, it's worth sitting through...
...again by the roar of cannon. But this time the guns were firing orderly salutes. Ireland was formally a Republic. By the External Relations Act (passed last December and proclaimed this week) it had severed its last direct tie with the British crown. For the first time since Pope Adrian IV, 795 years ago, gave the island to England's King Henry II, Ireland was independent in law as well as fact...
Eleven of the 12 murals were burned in the fire. Fogg obtained the series of the rare photographs from the noted philanthropist C. Adrian Rubel. Several large colored reproductions of the paintings are also being shown...
...Victoria Cross for killing Germans) leads him to pacificism and the ministry. His actress wife admires Robert but goes on loving her first husband, lost in the war. Their son and daughter, growing up in the foreshadow of a second war, find father's Christlike character dull. Son Adrian joins the army in a rebellious climax to years of boyhood revolt, but at the end, in the ruins of Germany, concludes that his father was right all along...
...conclusion is inevitable since Adrian and the rest are puppets contrived to voice Vera Brittain's newest tract. It is all set down with dogged sincerity and dogged prose...