Word: bared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bare majority of one vote closed an active battle in which both sides at times threatened to disrupt the meeting. Every one had obviously entered the debate with a definite opinion on the problem and no one changed his mind as a result of the arguments...
...thank. For all film, raw or exposed, on Hollywood shelves when the assessors make their annual visits on March's first Monday, the studios are taxed. The way to beat the tax is to empty the shelves. When the assessors made their rounds this week, most cupboards were bare. But at luckless Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the vast amount of film necessary for Norma Shearer's Marie Antoinette was still in stock, the picture only half completed...
Four years ago the first volume of Thomas Mann's extraordinary Biblical novel, Joseph and His Brothers, made U. S. readers aware of the fuller meaning a great imagination could find in a bare, familiar legend. That subtle book of 428 pages retold the Old Testament story of the patriarch Jacob, his wife Rachel, and his sons, particularly his favorite. Joseph...
...stories like this one of Joseph echo from generation to generation? He answered: "Very deep is the well of the past." Recorded history, he said, goes only a little way into that well. Deeper lie myths, folk tales, legends-"pious abbreviations" of real happenings. Time wore them down to bare narratives which later generations preserved partly through tradition, partly because men found similar patterns in their own experience. And while both Joseph and His Brothers and its sequel Young Joseph contained the lifelike characterizations that readers of Thomas Mann's modern novels had come to expect from him, they...
Last week the third volume of this major work was published. Joseph in Egypt is the longest and most complex of the books in the series. Like the other volumes, it departs a little from the bare Biblical record, sometimes in minor details, sometimes by the addition of characters and situations that are not in the Old Testament...