Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burma, was promptly introduced to Premier U Nu. She explored his face with her sensitive hands, pronounced him "a philosopher and a poet." Later, meeting reporters in Rangoon, Helen Keller was asked by Roving Journalist Vincent (Rage of the Soul) Sheean how she felt about one of Playwright George Bernard Shaw's loftier dicta, which, as Sheean recalled, went: "Of all Americans, Miss Keller is the least blind and deaf." Miss Keller replied: "That is not what he actually said. It was at a meeting with G. B. Shaw when Lady Astor introduced me as the great blind...
...Junior Bernard Flynn overcame a floating inner tube and four other singles oarsmen yesterday afternoon to win the University Singles Championship on the Charles River. He was one of six victors in the finals of the 1955 University Sculling Regatta held over the past two days...
Twenty minutes after the senior doubles race Ames and Hoadley met junior Bernard Flynn, House singles champion, in the mile-long college single sculls race. Flynn won easily in the time...
...Bernard Rogers' The Nightingale (on a double bill with Miracle) retells the famous Andersen fairy tale of the Chinese emperor who prefers a mechanical nightingale to the real thing. This is Rogers' fourth opera (his second was The Warrior, which was sung at the Met in 1947). At 62, he shows some pleasant signs of mellowness, but The Nightingale's chirping was too insistently Chinese and too disorganized for comfort...
...Family Portrait, a play by Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowen that ran for 14 weeks on Broadway in 1939 and for four weeks in London in 1948. Theme of the play: the hostility and lack of comprehension by Jesus' brothers to His mission. Britain's Bernard Cardinal Griffin lost no time in protesting that the play's assumption that Jesus had blood brothers "is contrary to sound scholarship and the belief of all Christian bodies." "Blasphemy," stormed the Catholic paper Universe. "Cast aside was the age-old belief of the Christian world in Our Lady...