Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rise to be "Lord over Egypt" and his reunion with his father, Jacob, and his errant brothers), it is so slow-paced and philosophical that it seems static, despite the rapid development of its action. For it lacks the intense excitement of the scenes in which Joseph was cast into the pit, then sold into slavery (Young Joseph), or the intensity of the amorous scenes with Potiphar's wife (Joseph in Egypt). But while it is written with the deliberately pedantic humor in which Mann casts his cosmic irony, Joseph the Provider is so lucid that the magnificent flow...
Turning from "light summer fare," The Cambridge Summer Theatre has in "Anna Christie" its most successful show of the season. Acted by a uniformly competent cast, the O'Neili play of the Sea, despite the fact that a woman in a bar-room is not the sensation it was twenty-five years ago, is still good theatre...
...girl and injects a much-needed note of natural humor. Doubling in the role of author and actor, Harold Kennedy plays the faithful friend Tony as if the part had been written for him. Louise Valery, Lee Nugent, Allan Tower, Miranda Swanson and David Tyrell round out the cast. It should be said that Andrew Mack's set is probably the best of its kind that has been seen in many a straw-hat season...
...probability was that there would be no public airing of the Pearl Harbor linen until after the November election. Attorney General Francis Biddle handed down a convenient legal opinion that fore cast an indefinite delay. Ruled Biddle: because Admiral Kimmel and General Short have waived the two-year statute of limitations, they can be court-martialed whenever the Army & Navy get around to it, regardless of Congressional deadlines...
...possible fatal effects of delay, notably the problem of security, and the morale of troops already aboard ship, poised and ready. Finally he said what all were waiting to hear: "In view of all these factors, I think we had better go ahead." The die was cast. The meeting had taken just half an hour. With one characteristically casual sentence General Eisenhower loosed the fateful lightning that will stab and flicker over Europe until Nazi Germany is down. Similar conferences had been held twice a clay for three days. On the preceding Saturday the operation had even been...