Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barbara Perry, Executive Secretary of the United States branch of the Festival Committee, admitted the plausibility of the State Department allegations, but thought the chance to meet and influence students from Iron Curtain countries "too good to pass...
Finnegans Wake and a little sketch by the French writer Tardieu called Trio, which Sarah Lawrence presented, serve as examples of another, if minor, branch on the experimental tree--they depended for much of their effect on playing with words. The difficulties and advantages of Joyce's style are familiar enough; the Tardieu play exploited not the possibilities of puns, but of the musical ecects which can be extracted from the sound of words with scant regard paid to their meaning...
...band. Each of the members will collect about $4,750 in cash. The rest of the land-sale proceeds will go to reimburse individuals for moving expenses and loss of their houses and permanent improvements, and to build up a trust fund to be administered by the Indian Affairs Branch in Ottawa for the Chippewas...
Died. Burton Rascoe. 64, critic, editor, author (Titans of Literature, Before I Forget), compiler (1924-28) of the literary gossip column "A Bookman's Daybook," at one time syndicated to 400 newspapers, who was credited with discovering James Branch Cabell and touting, before they were fully recognized, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson and Carl Sandburg; in Manhattan...
...Brave One (King Brothers; Universal-International). One wild, dark night on the Mexican altiplanicie, the wind screamed and the rain beat and the lightning felled a great branch on a cow, a mother of fighting bulls. By sheer might of instinct, the valiant beast survived long enough to drop her bull calf and to bellow until help came. It was a small boy (Michel Ray), the son of a Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano...