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...last time. In a sea of shrieks and yells and jumping natives, Freddy kissed his wife, Sir Harry's 19-year-old daughter Nancy, and his friend, the Marquis de Visdelou-Guimbeau, whose coat of arms is three wolves with their tongues hanging out. Then he dove into his car, told the driver to race for home. There Grisou, the Maltese "alibi" cat, stood on his hind legs at the window, making strong noises in his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: Killer at Large | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

Soloist for the evening was Phyllis Smith (of Wellesley College) whose rendition of the "Recitative and Aria 'Dove Song'" from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" was the highlight of the concert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC BOX | 10/1/1943 | See Source »

TIME has given me a good introduction to the work of a man whom I knew I ought to know. For this, thank you. Toward the end of the review a lyric is quoted, The dove descending . . . which strikes me hard with pleasure in the poetry and in the impact of the thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 28, 1943 | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

...dove descending breaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: At the Still Point | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...dove may be either Spitfire or Messerschmitt, or the Holy Ghost, or both. The redemption from fire by fire may be either the crucial moral dilemma of war-kill or be killed-or the redemption from hellfire through heaven-sent fire, or both. That the fire is heaven-sent, literally as well as through the mere figurative agents, doves and bombers, Eliot has no doubt. For the lyric continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: At the Still Point | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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