Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violence of the passions released by the demagogue are starkly symbolized by the casting of a gigantic shadow of the orator high up on the white brick wall in back. The events of the civil war following the assassination of Caesar are barely touched upon, and Caesar's ghost does not appear at all. Brutus dies almost immediately after Cassias. The play ends suddenly with its apology for its conscientious here, Brutus, and with one's impression of the murder and the tide-turning speech still vividly in mind...
North and west of Pocatello, Idaho, U. S. highway 30 N enters the Snake River Valley, a wild region of fantastic rock formations, ghost towns, ice caverns, dinosaur fields, waterfalls, hot springs, reclamation projects, historic legends, lava beds. In some places, because of the underground rivers, "a person can put his ear to the ground and hear deep and troubled rumblings as if a mighty ocean rolled far under." Thirty-eight miles from Pocatello a three-mile side road leads to Emigrant Rock, where travelers wrote their names in axle grease as early as 1849. Forty-four miles on, another...
...report on the 40 Government Printing Office employes who have the awful job of reading the Congressional Record out loud to each other every night. In a solemn rejoinder the Government Printing Office listed other grievous blunders its proofreaders had caught. Sample: a speaker recently mentioned Bancroft's ghost. "Banquo," said the report, "was the party referred...
...England a remarkable claim was advanced, remarkably supported by Critic Richard Capell (London Daily Telegraph) and internationally famed Musicologist Sir Donald Francis Tovey. The claim: that the violinist, Jelly D'Aranyi, grandniece of Joachim, had "discovered" the existence of the "lost" concerto while interviewing Schumann's ghost at a spiritualist seance. Miss D'Aranyi wanted the performing rights for herself, had announced that she would give the world premiere of the concerto in London with the British Broadcasting Co. Orchestra in October. Nazi authorities, seeing the honor of an important premiere slipping from under their noses, decreed...
...Every man has a ghost," was the beguiling slogan with which a New York firm recently solicited Harvard business in a form letter received by a great number of the undergraduate body. In fact, on closer examination the services offered by this concern turned out to be considerably more than "ghosting," or rewrite work; it developed that the firm undertook to do research in any academic field desired, that a customer had only to wire to the company the nature of the problem confronting him and he would receive by registered mail a few days later a paper...