Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BURGOS JUSTICE - Ruiz Vilaplana - Knopf ($2). Revelations of an ex-Com missioner of Justice of Burgos, Spain, who first supported the rebels, turned against them because of atrocities and the dominance of German and Italian influence. Good accounts of day-to-day life behind rebel lines at the beginning of the civil war, weakened by dull speculations, sketchy historical passages...
Standard-Vacuum Oil Com pany...
University officials pointed out that in addition to pension payments most employees would receive payments for past service based on 1% of their previous salaries. The employees do not contribute anything to this plan. The percentage on which the grants are com- puted is typical in such arrangements, it was stated...
...only ''operational test" he asked 100 people, ranging from schoolboys to Senators, what "fascism" meant to them. They all disliked it, but they had 15 different concepts of what they disliked, including that of a housewife who thought it was "a Florida rattlesnake." Popular ideas of "com-munism," "democracy," "capitalism," says Chase, would show as much confusion. Users of such terms, he declares, "are like motorists trying to explore Maine guided by a map of Texas...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Com-pany never considered Elektra a best seller. Yet when the opera was revived last week at the Met, a capacity audience, including silk hats and standees, gave it the lustiest ovation heard there in several seasons. Principal object of their applause: a dark, hefty Hungarian soprano. Rose Pauly. who heaved and panted through 15 curtain calls after her Metropolitan debut in the title role. Other objects : the sinister, pasty-faced Klytemnestra of Kerstin Thorborg; the brilliant conducting of Artur Bodanzky. Pauly, whose last year's appearance in a concert version of Elektra under...