Word: cellars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism's 37 years in power in Russia, leaders have fallen from power in dramatically diverse ways. Some cringingly confessed to being jackals, venal hirelings in the pay of the capitalist enemy. Some went silently to the cellar. Some, like Molotov in his days as Premier, stepped uncomplainingly aside and lived on, even rising to high power again. Some, like the devoted Communists in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, confessed to others' errors as their last proof of loyalty to the system, and hoped that after their deaths Communist history would thank them for their sacrifice...
Presidents bought by the Corcoran in 1879. After a time, the unappreciated series was sent to the cellar, then dispersed by loans to various District of Columbia schools. Twelve years ago, the paintings were at last recalled to the Corcoran. Cleaned and hung in the gallery, Healy's Lincoln slowly began gaining the attention it deserves. "This," wrote Expert Duncan Phillips last year, "is a happy Lincoln ... It is a disarmingly personal impression of the eyes of true greatness at a moment when they were lighted with the surprise, the honor and the vision of supreme opportunity." Lesser matters...
...Adieux" sonata. Impeccable in white tie and tails, he bowed to the storm of applause that swept Carnegie Hall, dutifully played three encores. Later that night, he could be seen walking down neon-gaudy Broadway. Just five blocks south of the august concert hall, he ducked into a cellar. Within a few minutes Concert Pianist Friedrich Gulda was on the bandstand, amid the smoke and clatter of Broadway's famed Birdland nightclub, playing jazz-cool, glittering and poignant as icicles. Sitting in with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Pianist Gulda rippled out chorus after chorus of Lullaby of Birdland while...
...varsity hockey team, starting with a goal at 0:18 of the first period, completely mastered a cellar-dwelling Dartmouth sextet at Hanover last Saturday to gain its first Ivy League victory...
...Dunster House Committee, considering plans to improve the appearance of its cinder-block-walled cellar playroom feels "as I do, that this is a very exciting thing, and wants it to be aesthetically beautiful," added Charles Kletzch, Dunster House Librarian...