Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iron Curtain countries today the only real opposition to the Communist regimes comes from the ranks of the churches. The Socialists may proclaim that they are the chief enemies to Communism, and in Berlin they have certainly demonstrated that fact, but what has happened in every Eastern European country the Communists have taken? The left-wing of the Socialist parties has always gone Communist under pressure...
...curtain mercifully fell on the hammed-up Hamlet, a voice from the balcony yelled: "Author, author!" A stir ran through the audience aboard Cap'n J. W. (Bill) Menke's Goldenrod, last of the Mississippi's showboats, and up to the footlights stepped one of William Shakespeare's belated collaborators, Cap'n Billy Bryant, onetime showboat king of the Ohio. Hollered the voice: "Shoot him dead...
...festival." But on opening night, before a jammed audience in Usher Hall, he was right there, ready, and with Franck, Sibelius, Brahms and Berlioz, he put on as good a show as ever. When he waved the men of his Royal Philharmonic to their feet on the fourth curtain call, they sat still; he howled at them in mock fury, then turned to the delighted audience: "You have observed, ladies and gentlemen, that this orchestra has every sort of virtue but one-obedience...
Behind the Iron Curtain, the war on the Roman Catholic Church continued. In a letter to the Czech State Prosecutor, which reached the press last week, Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran detailed what had happened to him since he was "interned" in his palace (TIME, JUNE...
...also plans to direct attention to Germany's ten million refugees from behind the Iron Curtain in the hope that underpopulated Australia may consider them for immigration. "I consider it the task of the church," he says, "to oil the hinges on the doors between countries so that these doors may open more easily...