Word: desert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been said a man is a genius in the ratio that he possesses woman's qualities (emotion, perception, tenderness, ruthlessness). Genius Balieff possessed one woman's quality, and it finally drove him to desert the Moscow Art. He craved to talk. To satisfy this craving he formed his own theatre; in its early days a sort of music hall cafe, and called it The Bat. "When I make the theatre in a cellar, as I go in one day. . . one bat was flying...
...corner in case there is not enough atmosphere in the picture itself, "Beau Geste" presents itself at the University Theatre this week for the approbation of the local moviegoers. As far as we personally are concerned there is atmosphere aplenty in the opus itself. After one has approached the deserted fort across a distinctly realistic movie desert, one is supplied with plenty of local color, French Foreign Legion social ethics, North Beery brutality and much besides which deflea enumeration...
...French Sudan is the transition belt between the Sahara desert and the forests on the South," said Mr. Wulsin. "It is consequently the dividing zone, and at the same time, the meeting zone of the white momadic tribes of the north and the negro races of the South...
...offering for this season is more scholarly than creative?a reconstruction of the episcopal works of the first Roman Catholic bishop of her beloved New Mexico, Jean Marie Latour.* She draws him with esthetic reverence, an immaculate conception of a missionary in buckskins who, lost and athirst in the desert, still retained elegance, distinction and "a kind of courtesy toward himself, toward his beasts, toward the juniper tree before which he knelt and the God whom he was addressing...
...nature leaves her free to chronicle every aspect of the vast country in which he worked and where she, three quarters of a century later, annually repairs for enlargement of the spirit. Into his pious story she can bring a wealth of unchurchly anecdotes because, trekking around his desert diocese on his cream-colored mule, Bishop Latour was respectfully studious of its folklore. He was austere towards priests like Padre Martinez, the bison-shouldered Mexican at Taos, brazen in fleshliness. But when Jacinto, his Indian guide, led him through a blizzard to shelter in a secret, tribal, mountain cave...