Word: castaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hare & Hounds. Unlike Crusoe, Tweed was a fugitive as well as a castaway, and his story is a harrowing tale of hare & hounds. Never for a moment did the Japs relax their hunt for him and the five other U.S. servicemen who chose to hide on the 225 sq. mi. island rather than surrender with the rest on Dec. 10, 1941. Time after time Tweed abandoned a hideaway only minutes before a Jap hunting party arrived...
...show is as simple as K rations, as nostalgic as its cowboy songs, as lusty as a. G.I. bull session. (Chesty brunette to castaway sailor: "I'm going to give you something you haven't had for a loong time." Sailor: "You mean-there's a bottle of ice-cold beer on this island?") On the Road. At one bomber base a number of planes had just been lost when the show arrived. "The girls-Red Cross girls and nurses-came into the theater crying, and some of the fellows were drunk. But when we got through...
Called The Island God, it told a fantastic, metaphysical story, a conflict between an ancient Greek god and a modern castaway on a Mediterranean isle. In the final scene, the castaway discovers the grotesque truth: the god fears him, knowing that the man's faith in him is all that keeps the god alive. Defiantly the man shatters the god's sacred altar, forcing the god to destroy him and, in so doing, to destroy himself. The opera had so little drama in it, such paucity of stage movement, that New York Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson labeled...
...Tough, stout-hearted Dutch, Belgians, Luxemburgers! Tormented, mishandled, shamefully castaway peoples of Yugoslavia! Glorious Greece, now subjected to the crowning insult of rule by the Italian jackanapes! Yield not an inch. Keep your souls clean from all contact with the Nazis. Make them feel, even in their hour of brutish triumph, that they are the moral outcasts of mankind. Help is coming. Mighty forces are arming in your behalf. Have faith. Have hope. Deliverance is sure...