Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bride's mother after her daughter's wedding, suffers from forced description and unconvincing characters, who appear not as persons but only names on a page. The meaning of Mrs. Laccy's rummaging through her daughter's packed wardrobe, apparently the crucial incident in the story, is not clear. If the mother is comparing her own marriage with that of her daughter, then the point should be made more forcefully...
...first poets to devise odd typographical settings for his works, often putting one word on a line. Williams believes in clear language, strong images, and complete freedom in the choice of subject matter...
...Bach's B-Minor Mass and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. They were particularly welcomed Monday night when they gave Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor in its first Boston performance in Trinity Church. The crow which filled every seat and stood in every open space made this pretty clear...
...rewarding ... to sit down at one table with the representatives of completely different churches ... as at Amsterdam-to sit down not with the purpose of formulating a new dogma or making compromises, but with the modest yet firm purpose of reaching through discussion a clear understanding of the things about which Christendom is united and the things about which it is divided ... So many . . . things at Amsterdam were simply encouraging . . . [that] I am glad that I did not harden myself against this new experience, but kept myself open...
...India operating over 6,000 miles of airways; its vast, nationalized (but hardly modernized) railroad system, fourth largest in the world; the radio station at New Delhi, looking like a maharaja's palace; and its huge cotton mills. The film is cut and paced to make forcefully clear the disorder and vitality, the sloth and aspiration of an ancient country in the process of becoming a modern nation...