Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon when Britain's High Commissioner, prim Sir Noel Charles, was to call, Visconti-Venosta personally ordered every candle and sputtering carbide light in the Palazzo Chigi doused. Sir Noel walked into Stygian gloom, groped his way through the Chigi's interminable passages and waiting rooms, conferred ghost-to-ghost with Visconti-Venosta. whose face never cracked a smile. Next day Visconti-Venosta wrote Sir Noel a note reviewing the discussions: "As we were saying yesterday in complete darkness. . . ." Sir Noel got the point. The Chigi got Allied-rationed electricity...
Suddenly a long-missing Bulgarian ghost popped up-Comrade Georgi Dimitrov, onetime organizer of Bulgarian workers, onetime Communist International agent in Germany, onetime hero of the Reichstag fire trial, onetime secretary of the Communist International. In a letter to Sofia's Communist Rabotnitchesko Delo, Dimitrov welcomed Bulgarian troops to the side of the Red Army. Reported PM's Correspondent M. W. Fodor: "The letter has caused some uneasiness among Balkan nationals...
...restatement of some of the ideas of Author Wylie's recent Generation of Vipers (TIME, Jan. 18, 1943), the framework is a ghost story. Ann Gracey, war widow agreed to rent her haunted house to John Galen, a biochemist, who had just learned that he was epileptic and in danger of madness. The developing love of these two, and the search for the "It" hidden in the house share interest with the author's views on religion, politics, art, and-above all-death. Provocative. General
...Chicago last week an attractive young woman named Betty Ryan climbed up on a speaker's stand, crossed herself and said: "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Good evening, folks, I am glad to see you here tonight because I am going to talk about the Bible. You people love the Bible. You read it every day, I know. Now we Catholics love the Bible, too, and that is what I want to tell you about tonight...
Spirit v. Ghost. Still Time to Die is often frankly bitter, often overemotional, occasionally theatrical (in phrases such as "Battles are merely the flashing, seductive garments that hide the passionate but terrible whore's body of war"). But it carries the conviction of a man whose spirit has been tried by seven years' intimacy with war's "dumb, bestial suffering, weariness, and utter and devastating exhaustion...