Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldiers were slightly more in evidence than usual on Caracas streets last week. There was an irksome 7 p.m. curfew, and at night Caraqueños heard isolated shots from snipers vainly trying to scare up a little counter-revolutionary enthusiasm. Except for these signs, and the new faces in Miraflores Palace, Venezuelans might almost have asked themselves, 'What coup...
...hair to make more bows for the fiddles, the prisoners surreptitiously plucked strands from the tail of the horse that pulled their food cart at mealtimes. How did his orchestra sound? "Well, not like the New York Philharmonic." How was the violin he played himself? "Fine," said Violinist Goldberg, "except it had guitar strings...
...Daniel Taradash; produced by Jean Dalrymple) reached Broadway figuratively picketed by the man who wrote it. Sartre had, on hearsay, denounced the U.S. version as a "vulgar, common melodrama with an anti-Communist bias" (TIME, Dec. 6). Though he might justly complain of a translation and a production that (except for Charles Beyer's brilliant acting) are pretty wooden, Red Gloves itself seems pretty typical Sartre...
...never been known to fire a shot, lift his fist, or even raise his soft voice in anger. Andrew Russell Pearson is a tall, tweedy, disarmingly mild-mannered fellow, with thinning light brown hair, a sparse mustache and earnest mien; he looks like a shy, quizzical cow college professor-except for his wary blue eyes. The mild manner camouflages a tough, diamond-hard core. And his casual clothes, his innocuously small-town look serve him well in Washington's lower echelons, where many of his tipsters work...
Elsewhere, Chase will stick to Saturday's lineup, except that in the third forward wall, sophomore Jee Kitteredge will replace Larry Ward as center. Chase says he is please with the progress of the John Garrity-Dave Key-Jack Carman first line that scored six goals in the MIT game...