Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ticklish Volume 40 of the new edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia, the volume containing the latest box score on Joseph Stalin, was published almost two years behind schedule and in the wake of its 48 companion volumes. Joe's spotty career is now trimmed down to five pages and one picture-a wholesale pruning in comparison with the previous (1947) edition's fat 59 pages and 14 pictures. In the new version, Dictator Stalin made no horrible mistakes until 1934, when "he began to believe in his own infallibility" and grew deaf to his comrades' advice...
...North is finally getting equal time from Columbia Records, whose 1954 album The Confederacy misted eyes from Richmond to Vicksburg, sold an impressive 35,000 copies. The Union, a handsomely turned-out companion album, may lack the other record's lost-cause fascination, and its concluding "hip-hip-hooray" cannot compete with the doomed defiance of The Confederacy's Rebel-yell finale. But The Union's alternately triumphant and melancholy Civil War music, again grouped by Conductor-Composer Richard Bales, stirs gallant ghosts and makes fine listening. The Grand Army starts off to war with a rousing...
...Sputniks." In Rome, the Communist daily Paese Sera indicated it had noted Khrushchev's remarks and filed them away for future guidance. "The American baby moon," the paper said, "is now wheeling in the sky along with Sputnik II. We are sure Sputnik II has welcomed its young companion, saying: 'You are small, but you will grow.' Not even John Foster Dulles can keep the American baby moon from coexisting with Sputnik...
Garden District comprises two Tennessee Williams plays laid in New Orleans. Something Unspoken, dealing with an uppity society woman and her secretary-companion, is a warm-up piece that leaves the spectator cold. Suddenly Last Summer is a vivid display of Williams' unique virtues and persisting excesses. A kind of psychological suspense piece, it works backward from the knowledge of a self-luxuriating "poet's" death to the nature of it. His rich, ruthless mother had long shared her son's dubious traveled life, but when she had a slight stroke, he took a young girl cousin...
...Teichiku Record Co. planned to bring out a disk entitled In the Rain at Amagi ("In the drizzling darkness of Amagi/Searchers call for the vanished two"), with a companion tune on the other side called Two Stars Over Amagi ("0 sad, the two lovers gone/Before the spring came") but, disturbed by accusations of "bad taste," decided against releasing the record. The Shin-Toho film studio has announced it has started production of a movie, Suicide on Mount Amagi, the story of the two young college students, with the first screening scheduled...