Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dreamers hoped for more sensational results: the New York musicians' union invited the submissive Soviet composer, who works hard to keep in tune with his masters, to unpack and let "his genius flower ... in the blessed air of freedom." No one could guess how Shostakovich really felt about the idea. By all the evidences he and the artistic high command in the Kremlin were singing in the same key again. Shostakovich had been allowed to leave the country and while he is away Moscow moviegoers are enjoying his latest score, a travesty on Yankee Doodle. Presumably the Kremlin...
Explained the U.S. publisher, who has sold 425,000 copies of Anna Karenina in the past year: "It was impossible to publish Anna Karenina at its full length in our format, and we felt that a condensed version would be better than none at all. The text was kept in the author's own words . . ." But there would be no market for such an enterprise in Russia. The Literary Gazette said: "With wrath and indignation the reader throws aside this latest lampoon cooked by American literary gangsters who have lost all proportions in their savagery and ignorance...
...CRIMSON has at no time meant to imply that the Faculty Committee refused recognition to the New Student because it disapproved of the magazine's political opinions. However, the CRIMSON has felt that in deliberating "whether the New Student was in fact a Harvard student publication," the Committee allowed the political nature of the magazine to have indirect effect. Here are two reasons for this belief...
...group felt that the bill would limit freedom of speech, and as such would violate the Constitution, Melville B. Nimmer 2L, president of the local chapter of the Lawyer's Guild stated. The "anti-atheism" clause could prevent the teaching of certain concepts in fields such as anthropology and philosophy, he added...
...fact, I had just decided to dismember it, and was tucking the napkin under my chin, when I happened to notice the title. "Boy Meets Girl." Then it occurred to me that in each of the story's four scenes a Boy had met a Girl, and I felt like Balboa. Which goes to show that one ought to read titles more carefully. "Boy Meets Girl" (From Beowulf to the Present) is clever, if weighty; whether the one attribute offsets the other will depend on the reader...