Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Czech political refugee has just sent us a letter telling of the continuing hunger for uncensored information behind the Iron Curtain. It reports how a small courageous group of Czechs still manages to get news from the outside world, despite the ban which was imposed on TIME, LIFE and 25 other foreign publications 18 months ago at the time of the Communist coup...
...experiences certainly shows that there are a few rust spots in the Iron Curtain...
Playwright Thornton Wilder (Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth) revealed some facts about that new play, still unnamed and still in the works: it will need no scenery, no curtain, no stage lights, no music. The house lights will not be dimmed at any time, and the action will unroll without a break. The subject: the life of a man. The casting: different actors to play the hero at different ages; one actress to play all the major female parts...
These and similar statements were made last August by one of the few U. S. youth groups to recently penetrate the "Iron Curtain." Similar beliefs are still actively being spread by this group...
...Look at the Iron Curtain...