Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shaw, the author of "Bury the Dead," "The Assassins," and the movie script of "The Arch of Triumph," has not given up hope for "his baby," as he calls the play. When approached by RDC President Robert E. Miller '48 in New York Sunday, Shaw offered his assistance on the production and expressed the hope that HDC might be able to bring the play back to public attention...
...armored train had dominated the gateway to Kalgan, there was now a long hospital train waiting to pick up the wounded from a battle raging to the east, at Yenching. Lieut. General Lu Yingling and Major General Li Ming-ting, two of Fu's best field commanders, were dead. Red cavalry marauders moved freely in adjacent Jehol province (see cut). In Kalgan, staff officers muttered: "The Communists keep growing stronger. Nothing we can do seems to stop them...
...medicine man slipped into the open vault, snatched an armful of currency and disappeared. In the hospital next day the manager ruefully totted up the cost of his gullibility: twelve employees dead from cyanide, and a loss of about 50,000 yen to the Tekoku Bank. Police were hunting the man of distinction...
...Pleasant Science. Long before this stage, Hubble and his colleagues had been driving up & down Palomar Mountain to admire their still blind telescope and its lovely setting. Of all the sciences, astronomy is in many respects the pleasantest. There are no dead animals (as in biology) or horrible smells (as in chemistry). Astronomers work on clear-aired mountaintops with clean and beautiful instruments. Their experimental material-light-filters down unbidden out of the cold, dark...
...fullness that neither "Figaro" nor "Idomenco," the previous efforts of the New England group, attempts to duplicate. The essential weakness of the performance yesterday was its failure to recognize Grand Opera, its insistence upon petty tricks of gesture and staging in place of the "grand style" that is dead for many things, but not for "Don Giovanni...