Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People's Good. He is stern as well as loving. His face looks down from posters, exhorting the people to put a stop to bribery: "Cast aside these vile practices. The giver is just as guilty as the receiver." Once he berated some refugees who gathered on his lawn in an unruly plea for relief; then he let them encamp under his window. Next morning, after a sleepless night, Nehru contritely promised to explore their grievances. In 1947, after appealing to Delhi's citizens to open their doors to homeless Hindus from Pakistan, he put up more than...
...Western sector of Berlin on a summer morning of 1948, General Lucius Clay cast the die: "We will stay in this city." Clay's fighting faith mounted into the thunder of the airlift. And with their will, Berlin's people tipped the scales of decision; the Russians lifted the blockade when they realized that Berliners would not be intimated...
Furthermore, Strauss was box office, as Halasz had proved with Salome and Ariadne auf Naxos. And, best of all, he had just the cast to sing the opera. Last week, Der Rosenkavalier' s first City Opera Co. performance proved Director Halasz exactly right...
...Montana-born Novelist Guthrie, a veteran Kentucky newspaperman (Lexington Leader), proved in his first novel, The Big Sky, that an honest imagination edged with poetic understanding could rescue the trading and trapping mountain men of the West from the fake-heroic fictional mold into which they had long been cast. Now in The Way West, Guthrie has irrevocably separated the covered-wagon pioneers of the 1840s from the busy, lusty book jackets and movie posters which have long held them in box-office thrall. Guthrie's humane and literate feat will have the mass of paying witnesses it deserves...
...acting in "A Touch" is limited, again, by the pantomime requirements of the silent film. It meets them; the best praise for its cast is that no single actor stands out. Nicholas van Slyck's music, which the Ivy people dubbed in to carry along their picture, may be a little harder to chew. It raps out its accompaniment to "A Touch's" nervous action at a stacatto 32-frames to the second; it is a raucous, brash, nervous score, which occasionally edges onto the screen and points to itself and says "listen to me." This again makes the person...