Word: crave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sadly uneven affair, The Silver Whistle is all the same a pleasantly unusual one. There may be nothing new about the theme (which is simply that people crave illusions, that while there's hope there's life), but the particulars are often fresh and lively. Mildly Saroyanesque throughout and a trifle Pollyannaish at the end, in its best scenes The Silver Whistle is genuinely funny, whether from the hobo's taradiddles or from dodderers who, with one foot in the grave, suddenly kick up commotion with the other...
Berlioz: Requiem (Emile Passani Choir and Orchestra, Jean Fournet conducting; Columbia, 22 sides). "If I were threatened with the destruction of the whole of my works save one," wrote Hector Berlioz, "I would crave mercy for the Requiem." Seldom performed because of its huge size (300 voices, a tenor soloist, the equivalent of four small orchestras, four brass bands and organ), it is one of the great choral works of all time. The performance, an excellent one, was recorded in France during the war. Recording: good...
Almost unnoticed at Springfield was Progressive Day. Vice-Presidential Candidate Glen Taylor drew a crowd of only 300 people, but they were enthusiastic. He assured them that the Russians "desperately crave peace," ended up by singing a duet with his wife. He sang It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary while she gave out with "What you gonna do when the rent comes 'round?" Witnesses declared it was more sensational than anything the fair could offer-the two cows made of butter, or even "Hitler's and Eva Braun's Love Car Worth...
...Soviet Union exercises a tremendous gravitational pull on an erratic comet like Henry Wallace. ... It is not true that Henry Wallace is an agent of Moscow. But it is true that he behaves like one. . . . Wallace has made a career by supplying to the liberals a commodity they crave: rhetoric which accomplishes in fantasy what cannot be accomplished in reality...
...Imam of the London Mosque, leader of the Ahmadiyya Moslems in Great Britain, crave the hospitality of the columns of your magazine-to expose the serious injury that has been caused by the publication of a picture of Mohamed (may peace and blessings be on his name) the Holy Prophet of Islam, and ... by unfortunate remarks in the body of the article headed "India-Pakistan" in the issue...