Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here & there throughout the speech was a scattering of Churchillian invective: "morbid and reactionary Socialists," "hagridden by Socialist doctrinaries," "bitter, cast-iron Socialist dogmas," "the gloomy vultures of nationalization," "the heavy-footed State...
...could not stay on the PC, where it would be warm, and there would be coffee, and there would not be much danger. They had to go in. When I looked at these faces and realized these things, I knew I could not stay aboard the PC. I had cast my lot with these men when we set out for the shore, and this was no time to desert. I put on my jacket, buckled on my belt, and shouldered my pack...
...Idler's production has managed, despite certain technical limitations, to capture admirably the pervading spirit of the play. Algernon, the most difficult and yet most rewarding role, was happily cast in Carleton C. Brower, whose languid voice and expressive features lent excellent emphasis to Wilde's epigrams; while Cathleen O'Conor was exquisitely amusing as the sharp-tongued, lofty Lady Bracknell. Other notable performances were John Jay Hughes' harried Worthing, Elaine Limpert's highly decorous Miss Prism, and Seabury Quinn's limp and sanctimonious Canon Chasuble. Anna A. Prince, Jr. was, despite a certain tendency toward overplaying, a charming...
...support his preference, carving direct in stone or wood, De Creeft quotes Michelangelo ("sculpture is done by a process of removal"), soft-pedaling the fact that most of Michelangelo's stone carvings were copied from studies which he modeled in wax, and that all of his bronzes were cast from modeled clay. De Creeft believes that a sculpture, like the chicken in the egg, is partially "preexistent" in the shape of the block, the grain, the texture. He thinks of himself as trying to "collaborate" with the stone to free the figure concealed inside...
...next move was up to Big Steel, bellwether of the industry, or the C.I.O. At week's end neither had anything to say. In the ominous silence, 640,000 workers in 766 steel, iron and aluminum plants all over the nation got ready to cast their votes this week in a strike poll. No one doubted that they would vote to strike. The only question was: when...