Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ferguson (professor of English at Western Reserve University) does an orderly tour of Mark Twain's professional career through his last lonely years, solaced by frenzied billiard games, Baconian theories, a glorified piano player, the dictation of his Autobiography. " Every character he ever wrote about, including Joan of Arc," says Ferguson, "was either drawn from the intensive experience of his first thirty years or conceived in its spirit." Ferguson is an apostle of solid sense, has no time for the "dire Freudian symbolism...
Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe." King George VI of England suggested that the day of defeat was past and gone. "The debt of Dunkirk is repaid," he said. Joseph Stalin, congratulating Roosevelt and Churchill, said: "I wish you further successes," and Pravda, in Moscow, talked as if those successes would be accomplished very soon: "The time is approaching when jointly with the armies of our allies we shall break the backbone of the Fascist beast...
What the Japs Want. The situation in the Southwest Pacific had not suddenly changed in any important respect last week, except that the Japanese haa begun to cash in on four to six months' gradual preparations along their 6,000-mile defensive arc. For some time they had been building airstrips, until now there were 65 between Timor and Munda. For some time they had been moving troops to a maze of forward garrisons, until there were seven to ten divisions in line. Some of these were good troops: one division had fought several months in China against...
...feature on tonight's program of the Harvard Film Society is "The Passion of Joan of Arc," a French film depicting the trial of the Saint. Done in a practically continuous series of close-ups, this film is a good example of the transition period just before the introduction of talking pictures...
...study of the ruins of the 900-year-old Abbey at Jumiéges, a Seine village a few miles beyond Normandy's ancient capital, Rouen. Celebrated for its churches, duck pâté, sugar candy made of apples, and for the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, Rouen was the scene of paintings by Pissarro, Guillaumin, and Normandy's almost unknown but excellent Albert Lebourg, who died, paralyzed, at Rouen only 15 years ago. Lebourg's three paintings of the Seine near Rouen were infused with a diaphanous light suggesting England's Turner, for whom...