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...even the critics could force themselves to write that Jeritza's singing had been bad. Explained a nostalgic Viennese: "You can betray the Austrian government any time. But to betray the Opera is treason. Nobody would dare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Exactly Right for Vienna | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

Among the AEC's now jobs is work on a submarine for the Navy. The submarine, Pike said, might be able to cruise 15,000 miles at 18 to 30 knots "without leaving a trail of oxygen," that might betray the ship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pike Fears Quick Atom Conversion | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the actors keep getting into the foreground, brandishing passports from Hollywood and posturing through a sprawling script based on the bestselling drugstore novel of Borgia intrigue by Samuel (Captain from Castile) Shella-barger (see BOOKS). The very authenticity of the surroundings helps to betray the story and characters as strictly from Graustark. And even Graustark is betrayed: moviegoers willing to take swashbuckling romance on its own easygoing terms are likely to chafe at the film's portentous pace and the political airs it puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 9, 1950 | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...betray a pitiful lack of experience when you tag as sugary and overripe prose [Novelist A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s], "And it came on toward night, and the sun was down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes were beginning to yip on the hills and the stars to light up, and there was the good smell of aspen smoke in his nose" [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...province. In driving home this point, the Tories got help from Liberal-hating independent candidates like Montreal's elephantine Mayor Camillien Houde. Said Houde: "Better for us to have in Ottawa a Protestant prime minister who will defend our rights than a French-speaking Roman Catholic who will betray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Final Round | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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