Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman, a very plain man indeed, who had never sought or dreamed of being Man of the Atomic Year, had been cast up to his position by an accident of the tides, by the shifting forces of politics. In the same startled and unpremeditated fashion, mankind itself, shrinking from the shadow of Hiroshima, dwarfed by the Event of 1945, had got where...
...Rodgers-Hammerstein style songs composed by Sharpe and lyricized by William Scudder are seldom clever, but they're usually spirited and often quite tuneful. Members of the cast deserving distinctly honorable mention are Allan Butler, James Young, Allan Dingwall, Robert Gardner, Scudder, Richard Humphrey, David Mackintosh, George Tilghman, Robert Young, and--but hell, this isn't the social register...
...Dewey locked the letter in his files, went back to his electioneering. Though he had known before that the U.S. had cracked the Jap code, had suspected that this information cast grave doubts on Franklin Roosevelt's role before Pearl Harbor, he held his tongue. The War Department's most valuable secret was kept out of the campaign...
Faye Emerson, as a horn-rimmed victim, isn't given much chance to live up to her billing as a lush, dangerous beauty. Zachary Scott, whose best screen performance to date was the simple, down-to-earth Texas farmer in The Southerner, is now being cast by Warner as a no-good city slicker. He makes as much sense as he can of his moronic lines, but the plot machinery jams frequently. Clearly too fast for anyone in the picture, Zachary eventually hastens his own end by tripping over a tree root and pitching over a cliff...
Reviving tradition as completely as possible under present crowded conditions, Lowell House will present this evening lie first Elizabethan comedy since 1941. A virtually unexpurgated production of Thomas Middleton's bawdy "A Chaste Maid of Cheapside," with a cast of 16, will be given at 7:30 o'clock in the dining room and will be open to House members only. The yearly dinner, with candlelit tables, Yule log ceremony, and carols will be held on Monday night...