Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union invited the submissive Soviet composer, who works hard to keep in tune with his masters, to unpack and let "his genius flower ... in the blessed air of freedom." No one could guess how Shostakovich really felt about the idea. By all the evidences he and the artistic high command in the Kremlin were singing in the same key again. Shostakovich had been allowed to leave the country and while he is away Moscow moviegoers are enjoying his latest score, a travesty on Yankee Doodle. Presumably the Kremlin had also taken the customary steps to persuade Shostakovich...
...from the Germans in World War I with the help of Nurse Edith Cavell, was captured again by the Germans in World War II, during the Sedan breakthrough. He escaped again, made his way with Allied help to Gibraltar - and frustration. He had been picked by the Allies to command French forces in Africa after the invasion in 1942, but sly Admiral Darlan, who had to be bullied and wheedled into going over from Vichy to the Allies, kept the allegiance of most of the troops. After Darlan's assassination, Giraud was briefly the No. 1 French commander...
...instant, like heat lightning, an announcement dimly outlined a far horizon. There had been a shake-up in Soviet Russia's high command. The world was left to wonder about the details and the meaning of this dark, distant scene...
Lord of Pastures. They took him to Naribanchin, taught him Tibetan (the Latin of Buddhism), the scriptures, and the procedures of his new office. As the 19th successive reincarnation of 6th Century Buddhist Saint Dilowa, they gave him that name. When he was 18, the Dilowa Hutukhtu assumed command of the Naribanchin lamasery and two others in Chinese Inner Mongolia...
...true of 24-year-old Truman Capote, it could explain why the two best stories in this collection are about remarkable ten-and twelve-year-olds. These two stories, Children on Their Birthdays and Jug of Silver, are written with full sympathy for their juveniles and an effortless command of the scene. They could become small classics of their kind...