Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find out the rules of procedure for trying Giuliano under U.S. law, and a Norfolk judge has agreed to act as adviser to all concerned. In preparing the evidence in the Giuliano case the seventh-graders have had to give reports on trial by jury, the origin of English law, habeas corpus, the courts and jury system of Connecticut, and other related subjects. At present, according to Mr. Anderson, the status of the case is as follows...
...first trip back to Moscow since the war, Paul Robeson (see U.S. AFFAIRS) was a howling success. "You know how I feel to be back on Soviet soil," he told a cheering audience in Tchaikovsky Hall. He sang in English, French, Spanish and Russian, and tried out his own version of some of the words in Ol' Man River ("We must fight to death for peace and freedom"). He also introduced to the Russians an old favorite called Scandalize My Name, and dedicated it to the "socalled free Western press." The comrades loved every minute...
...apace, with six zanies shifting the scenery in amusing dance patterns while the play went on. No voices were outstanding, but Haydn's rollicking ensembles and the well-rehearsed way the Lemonaders sang them were the hit of the show. Next biggest hit: the eminently singable, notably contemporary English libretto of onetime Berlin Music Critic John Gutman, who now has a job in Manhattan's Wall Street. Sample, from a quintet pondering the advisability of admitting the miserly father to the "harmonious" life on the moon...
...understandable English, the above is a request for three law students to participate in the "Blind Date" television show. On the program they will compete with the budding sawboneses from Ithaca for the privilege of squiring some lovelies on an expense-paid blind date...
Like almost all its predecessors, Two Worlds assembles the members of a family in an English country house around the turn of the century and sets them to betraying to one another their inexhaustible human capacity for loyalty and treachery, frankness and cant, courage and cowardice. Its theme, painfully learned by all concerned, is the old, grim and simple text: "Judge not, that ye be not judged...