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Word: eternall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yet even with its pungent peccadillos and devious imbroglios, Giraudoux's theme is light and trite, his scope limited. As we found "Marivaudage," we find "Giraudoux-age"; Giraudoux's verbal and analytical virtuosity approaches the precious. He dallies for three hours with the ephemeral, and the eternal sentiments received eternal...

Author: By Anna C. Hunt, | Title: Amphitryon 38 | 8/1/1957 | See Source »

The following Sunday every Anglican clergyman in South Africa read from his pulpit a letter from his controlling bishop urging him to defy church apartheid, and proposing to establish a fund to support people prosecuted under the act. "If Verwoerd were so foolhardy now as to try to implement his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: White Man's God | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Somehow, out of all this vast confusion (amplified by the presence of five pony-sized Irish wolfhounds, cast as hunting dogs) emerged as powerful and moving a performance as British operagoers have seen in many years. Berlioz was anxious in The Trojans to restore pure song to first place in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Troy Rediscovered | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

In forbidding, grey Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary a convict petitioned the Department of Justice for the removal from his chest of a tattoo vowing eternal devotion to "Mary"; he was about to be released and wanted to marry a girl with another name. Over the Rio Grande Immigration Service patrolmen peered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUSTICE: Back-Room Man Out Front | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

"Grischa" Piatigorsky is currently busy writing his autobiography, which traces his remarkable career from his boyhood in the Ukraine to his arrival in the U.S. in 1929. A high point of the reminiscences comes with the time Piatigorsky was a homeless young refugee in Berlin and often had to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grischa & Sir William | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

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