Word: deceits
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Another time a Hollywood studio offered Stravinsky $100,000 for three musical scores a year. Replied Stravinsky: "To turn out one worthwhile piece of music in a year is enough. To guarantee three is to make a deceit...
...Hill still showed bomb scars, and he lived in only two rooms of it. But Hungarian peasants understood his blunt speech. He told them to stop reading government newspapers and stop listening to the radio. In a pastoral letter he proclaimed: "To the bitter disgrace of this country, falsehood, deceit and terror were never greater...
...Communist techniques have been the political tools of tyrants from time immemorial: murder and terror. We refuse to accept fraud and deceit as standards of public conduct. We reject murder and terror as political weapons...
...aging pastor (Thirkild Roose) is suffering because he won his young wife by deceit; he supervises the destruction of the old woman who might have betrayed him. The pastor's son (Preben Lerdorff) is suffering because he has fallen in love with his young stepmother. His sense of honor is strong enough to poison his love, but not as strong as the love itself. The young wife (Lisbeth Movin) is in the worst predicament of the three; though she suffers agonies of desire, neither conscience nor pity can touch her. The others are merely damaged; she is a lost...
...Communist deceit" put the name of Gaetano Salvemini on a pressure telegram slamming American interference in the Italian elections, the Lauro do Bois Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization said yesterday...