Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English earth by a reconnaissance plane to the last homing bomber groaning down onto the flare-lit runway in the dirty dawn. Its actors are those happy few to whom Britain and the democracies owe so much: the members of the R.A.F. There is not a ham in the cast...
Target's cast is unlisted, but some are recognizable, others known: Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Commander in Chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command; "Speedy" Powell, the blond, curly-topped Wing Commander (O.B.E., D.S.O.), who led the first over-the-Alps raid on Venice; the rugged Group-Captain (D.S.O., D.F.C. and Bar), a famed pilot, now grounded, who led the first raid on Sylt. The crew of F for Freddie, which devoted three months to making the film, have made more than 200 flights over Germany...
...Coward play is a short work, too much lacking in depth of characterization and scope of treatment to resolve successfully the large problem with which it grapples. Yet within this limitation it achieves a certain power and vitality, fully expressed by the Repertory's able cast. Life in the post-war twenties is depicted as a vortex of ever-accelerating tempo which sucks in both young and old, and crushes them in a mad whirl of meaningless activity, devoid of all values, empty of all reality. A climax is reached in the mad piano-playing of young Nicky...
...Observatory's yard, an amateur, Carl Joseph Redland, in daylight hours a barber in the University Barber Shop, displayed a 12 1/2-inch reflecting telescope which he had made entirely by hand, even to iron-cast mountings, and the mirrow which is ground to a focal test accuracy of a millionth of an inch...
...herself. Kambers himself decided on the Harvard angle and approached Coles H. Phinizy '42, who had succeeded Bowie, with the proposition that the 'Poon invite the second Jean Harlow to its spring dance. She wouldn't come, Kambers promised, but she might do some stunt like sending a plaster cast of her leg as a substitute. Phinizy refused his offer until he became exasperated, and then, in a moment of weakness, which he has since regretted, he accepted. Kambers immediately sent off a wire, and Woodworth, far from sending a plaster cast stand-in, headed Cambridgeward...