Word: babylonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surface Budapest is a purged Babylon. The wild inflation of six months ago has been curbed by drastic Russian measures. The street-corner financiers with their briefcases full of dollars and the peddlers who sold Leicas, slightly used countesses and pearl-handled revolvers are in hiding. The possession of U.S. dollars is now a death offense. The joke to match: Q. "What are they giving for the dollar these days?" A. "Sixty." Q. "Forints?" A. "No, years...
...barrage of verbal tomatoes, cabbages, and assorted fruit that hit the fan following the final curtain of "I Was a King in Babylon" was received with unusual graciousness and good spirit by the Veterans Theatre Workshop. "Shamelessly and unabashedly" confessing that activity around the box-office is a necessity for continued life, the Workshop --pessimistically prophesying, at the same time, that even "the best production of the finest classic would see the same Harvard student body staying away in droves"--is frankly asking the dinner crowd at House dining halls to choose their next production...
Meanwhile, the fray between rival College dramatic organizations continued as the H.D.C. executive committee excommunicated several Dramatic Club members who participated in the recent Veterans Theater performances of "I Was King in Babylon...
Hoping to avoid the criticism of subject matter following its recent production of "I Was a King in Babylon," the Veterans' Theater Workshop will put the selection of its spring production in the hands of the student body...
...Workshop," said Weisgal, "maintains that even the best production of the fourth finest classic would meet with the same indifference as did 'King in Babylon.' We hopes as a result of the poll to be able to select a play with universal appeal and prove that we are wrong...