Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enthusiasm. No one interrupted Vandenberg during his speech; at its conclusion the gallery was in a forbidden uproar of handclapping, and Senators from both sides of the aisle were wringing Vandenberg's hand. Rarely in history has a speech changed votes; but most Senators agreed that this was one such historic occasion...
...radio censor is a man who comes into his office every morning and finds a molehill on his desk. His job is to build that molehill into a mountain before he goes home." It still gets his sinus in an uproar to recall that during the war he was forbidden to refer slightingly to the Ubangi -because, the censors explained, the Ubangi might be holding captive some U.S. airmen, and take offense...
...press card, he designed his own. It has space for his photograph, for numerous stamps -also of his own design-and for signatures and counter-signatures. The TIME bureau chief who first signed it was highly amused-until Ralph, on the strength of it, was ushered into a forbidden Mexican sanctuary one day while the bureau chief, lacking such elaborate identification, was thrown...
...gold across their chests. Before them stood an elaborate, gold-fringed banner with the same colors, and beside it lay a wooden mallet covered with faded signatures. Meeting here amid Berlin's ruins was a chapter of Saxo-Borussia, one of the most important of the long-forbidden student corps which, long before Adolf Hitler, fostered Bismarck's "blood & iron" ideals of an imperialistic Greater Germany. These middle-aged men, huddled in threadbare coats, drinking a hot brew instead of the good old Moselle wine, might seem almost pitifully ridiculous. But their German dream had made Hitler...
...Barber, Poet Robert Horan and a cocker spaniel, he lives in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. He is still an Italian citizen, but except for Amelia Goes to the Ball, his work is almost unknown in his native Italy. When the war came Mussolini's censors put Menotti on the forbidden list. Anyway, opera like The Telephone wouldn't be grand enough. Says Menotti: "In Italy they hate chamber opera. They like to have about 500 people in the cast...