Word: baba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rodriguez Araya was expelled from the Chamber on a charge of having referred to Perón and his deputies as "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." He went into exile in Uruguay. But La Prensa kept harping on his accusations. Said a lead editorial just before Perón's speech last week: "It is the national administration which is compromised by these charges. It is the national administration which is responsible for IAPI...
...gall to say-and believe-that they have had to play down to conductors for years, and that they must maintain their own high standards. I'd love to hear Beecham's reply to that . . . They're musical mobsters. They're out to have Ali Baba for a chairman-there are just 40 of them...
...Baba-Yaga was a bloodthirsty witch who flitted through the skazki (fairy tales) of old Russia. She had a false leg fashioned from the polished thighbone of a young boy. She lived in a house that hopped on chicken-footed stilts, around which was an iron fence ornamented with skulls. After dark, the eye sockets of the skulls glowed with fire to light her way. Her chariot was a mortar, which she pushed with a pestle, using her besom to erase her singular track. Innocent children were her favorite fare, but once a girl child, who might have been...
...Russia there is little room for such ideologically unorthodox characters as Baba-Yaga. Since Lenin, writers of the new Soviet skazki have been instructed to fashion their fairy tales as "pictures of the Socialist way of life."* But Soviet writers cannot always follow Soviet Socialism. In Moscow last week Baba-Yaga might have chuckled a hearty witch's chuckle. Two of her Socialist successors-Bread Crumb and Gunpowder Crumb-were being boiled...
...Gunpowder from the hunter's brush and was heroically destroyed when Gunpowder exploded. Bread Crumb, meanwhile, came to his appointed happy end. The hunter ate him. Platonov's moral: "Bread gave the hunter strength. Gunpowder wanted to singe the whole world but only burned a sparrow." In Baba-Yaga's Russia such a feeble, artless fable would have had a hard time finding a publisher. But in Soviet Russia its publication evoked a thunderstorm. Pravda blasted: "Reeks of cheap pacifism*. . . both false and harmful. 'Peace on earth, good will to men,' our planet...