Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigate her if it must, but let us Americans cast off the robes of bigotry...
That was what happened in traditionally conservative Sicily. In last year's referendum on the monarchy, 68% of the Sicilian peasants had voted for the King. In regional elections last week, 34.5% of the voters cast their ballots for the Left. The Christian Democrats were second with 20%, the Qualunquist-Monarchist bloc third with 14%; the rest of the votes went to minor parties. This foreshadowed a Communist-Socialist majority in the national elections next October...
...palfreys, nor by gorgeous apparel, that the heretics win proselytes. It is by zealous preaching, by apostolic humility, by austerity. Zeal must be met by zeal, humility by humility, false sanctity by real sanctity, preaching falsehood by preaching truth. Sow the good seed as the heretics sow the bad. Cast off those sumptuous robes. Send away those brightly caparisoned palfreys. Go barefoot, without purse or scrip, like the apostles...
...twelve years: it was too expensive, too big and too lavish to produce often, particularly during wartime austerity. But when the Bolshoi Theater a year ago decided to revive it, the Soviet Government didn't spare the rubles. Early last year Producer L. Baratov assembled his huge cast, began lecturing them on the history and customs of the period (1598-1605). They toured the Kremlin, the Historical Museum and the Novo-Devichi and Donskoi monasteries to absorb the proper atmosphere...
Starting the casting for a production so early is an innovation for the Workshop, Jerome Kilty '50, president of the organization, said. By gaining an early start, the VTW hopes to eliminate academic worries for its cast when school-work resumes next fall...