Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apart form its political connotations, "Lifeboat" is an entertaining and exciting movie. Though the camera never leaves the boat, it manages to bring into view a wide range of emotions. The capable cast includes, in addition to those previously mentioned, Henry Hull, Mary Anderson, Canada Leo, and Heather Angel...
Meanwhile the Second Front cast other shadows which may or may not have immediate significance...
Winston Churchill was there to cast his ballot like any other M.P. He was plainly tired, but smiling and convivial. In voting line he said to surrounding backbenchers: "I'm not going about on the bottom of the cage like a wounded canary. Either they put me back on the perch-or I quit the cage altogether...
Mozart: Divertimento for Violin, Viola & Cello, K. 563 (Jascha Heifetz, William Primrose, Emanuel Feuermann; Victor; 8 sides). All-star cast, probably the most brilliant that could have been assembled, with a resulting whole that is nearly but not quite the sum of its parts -Heifetz sometimes neglects teamwork. Performance excellent, recording excellent...
When, in 1935, the San Francisco Musical Association cast about for someone to rescue the San Francisco Symphony from complete financial and artistic collapse, Monteux was suggested for the job. He was then guest-conducting at the-Hollywood Bowl. "The only difference between Toscanini and Monteux," New York Times Critic Olin Downes is reported to have remarked, "is in the waistline." San Francisco took the waistline, soon found that it surrounded one of the most sensitive, civilized, versatile and shrewdly practical men who ever wielded a baton...