Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year Oxford's Eights Week was only a haunting ghost. The now shabby barges were deserted, the towpaths staid. But, to keep up tradition, as Britons will, 23 skeleton crews-made up of medical students, underage youngsters and a sprinkling of special study reserves-bumped one another on the lonely Isis...
...dove may be either Spitfire or Messerschmitt, or the Holy Ghost, or both. The redemption from fire by fire may be either the crucial moral dilemma of war-kill or be killed-or the redemption from hellfire through heaven-sent fire, or both. That the fire is heaven-sent, literally as well as through the mere figurative agents, doves and bombers, Eliot has no doubt. For the lyric continues...
...Terminal). Mrs. Bush is a substantial, auburn-haired woman of middle years whose vaticinal gifts extend from prose to painting. Last week her dramatic canvases were shown at Manhattan's Grand Central Galleries. Famine, painted ten years ago, was depicted by an enormous white bird hovering over a ghost town; sabotage was symbolized by a factory through which a serpent wove its way. In another picture plumbing the future, a dragon Hitler encountered God, whose hooked nose and long white beard projected from a cloud. Passing from fore to hindsight, Mrs. Bush exhibited her brilliant idyllic scenes...
...World" at present heads all lists of non-fiction, surely a record to cause all other publishers to glower greenly at the Publishers S. As one critic put it, the vogue of the book lies in the fact that Willkie decided to write it himself, instead of employing a "ghost" writer. Mr. Willkie writes easily; he has a journalist's eye for the significant details of a situation, the image that crystallizes and reinforces impression and opinion alike. Most important of all, Mr. Willkie has a message--a message about which he is infinitely earnest, a message meaningful...
Blithe Spirit. Noel Coward's gay farce of a first wife's ghost cooking a second wife's goose (TIME...