Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After 42 dark weeks, Washington's hungry theatergoers snapped up a morsel-a one-night stand of Judith Anderson in Medea, played in the outdoor Sylvan Theater at the base of the Washington Monument. Actors' Equity would still not permit its players to perform where Negroes were excluded from the audience, and the capital's only playhouse, the National, still balked at such terms...
...secret of keeping horses high in flesh, Missouri-style, is so fundamental that many horsemen pay little heed to it. The secret: hay. When the feed man delivers a bale that doesn't strike Ben's fancy, back it goes. "I can smell hay, or feel it in the dark, and tell whether horses will like it," he says...
...Eliot has had a vision, as is well known, of 'the cactus land,' of a parched, desertic world-not of a dark so much as of an ash-grey age-in which the springs of life dried. In painting Mr. Eliot it has been my endeavor to convey . . . some vestige of all that. So you will see in his mask, drained of too hearty blood, a gazing strain, a patient contraction, the body slightly tilted (in the immaculate armor of sartorial convention) in resigned anticipation of the worst...
...Take Thy Rest." Dark-haired, vigorous Conductor Jones had few worries about his soloists (one, Contralto Lilian Knowles, is his wife) or about the great choir before him. Some of the choristers didn't even need scores. Mrs. George W. Halliwell, 82, was a charter member who had been singing in the choir ever since its founder, J. Fred Wolle, came home to Bethlehem 50 years ago from his studies in Munich, determined to dedicate himself and Bethlehem to Bach. Two others had been singing for 47 years, and more than 40 had been in the choir...
Through their culture runs the pervasive influence of the Negro and Indian. Brazil draws no color lines. From the 8th to the 11th Century, the Portuguese had lived as subjects of the swarthy, highly cultured Moors, and they had come to look upon dark skin as the mark of beauty. As a result, races intermarried freely. Some of Brazil's greatest statesmen, intellectuals and artists have had Negro blood. Says Brazil's famed Sociologist Gilberto Freyre: the Brazilian "has a certain fondness . . . for honoring differences...