Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...causes, was the conference chairman. Quietly working around him was the same hard core of trained Communists, the same muddle of the earnest and the inexperienced. The list of sponsors included such familiar leftist names as Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller, Novelist Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, Composer Aaron Copland, Poet Louis Untermeyer, New York Times Critic Olin Downes...
...Nazis; her brother-in-law disappeared into the Russian army. Ava was sent to the concentration camp at Lemberg, put to sorting the clothing of surplus human beings eliminated by the Germans. Out of one heap came her mother's garments and Ava knew that she was dead. One morning Ava put on a dead man's suit, walked out of the camp with a construction gang and escaped...
...called themselves custodians of education were merely spineless dolls with the guts of sawdust, living in pretense because they refused to accept life as it was? Was it that those who called themselves teachers were merely playing politics on an enclosed checkerboard and parroting the thoughts of the Dead Great because it gave them a vicarious importance and authority? Did America perhaps justly laugh at her teachers and humiliate them because they asked for it?" It is a challenge for teachers with a sense of responsibility, with a conscience...
...Stairs broke down once 14 years ago," Jimmy relates. "But they're O.K. now." One fight above the partly open area of the bell tower stands the widow's walk, strewn with dead pigeons...
From nowhere came the seniority of human voices, scarely audible, singing "Thou shalt arise, arise from the dead." It was a magnificent entrance. No shuffing of pages or motion of any kind hinted that the Chorus was about to sing. Its entrance was only a mysterious whisper floating out into the hall, carrying the seprano solo along on top. The discipline of the Chorus was a real tribute to its director, Professor Woodworth. Adcle Addison, the seprano soloist, sang her part clearly and beautifully. And for the second time in two years, Leonard Bernstein had successfully brought Mahler's Second...