Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your last!" was the sound advice dealt out to his fellow craftsmen by hardworking, he-man Author Ernest Hemingway in the afternoon of a full life. "If a writer," wrote Ernest in the New York Times Book Review, "became a critic or entered other fields it could lead to grave humiliations . . . Think of how it could shake a writer's confidence to lose the Secretariat of Agriculture to Louis Bromfield in some little smoke-filled room, or wake some morning to find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead of you, or that Jean...
Last week, in the closing days of debate, the Senate suddenly burst out in confused soul-searching and stubborn reservations. Proponents like Iowa's Guy Gillette announced support "with the greatest reluctance, with deep misgivings, with grave doubts and qualms." Ohio's Robert Taft, who had announced his opposition "with the greatest discomfort," suggested extending the Monroe Doctrine to Western Europe instead...
...Stalingrad," takes pride in supplying table wines to Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. Over half its 10,000 people (many of them unemployed, some dwelling in caves) support the Communists. Yet they are married in the church, have their children baptized, and are buried with a priest blessing the grave and a banner-bearing Communist official paying pompous graveside respects. Last Sunday an old woman peddling the Communist paper L'Unitá was surprised when asked what she and her fellow Communists would do about the church. "Why, I've already been this morning," she said...
Last week, the Israeli government did what governments rarely do: it admitted a grave miscarriage of justice. Tobiansky was fully exonerated of treasonable intent. Former Lieut. Colonel Isar Beari, who had acted as Tobiansky's prosecutor, was formally charged with manslaughter. The Prime Minister wrote to Lena Tobiansky that her husband's execution had been "a tragic mistake...
From 1681 to 1840-while Shakespeare spun in his grave-London theatergoers saw, and enjoyed, King Lear with a happy ending. In a version by Poet Laureate Nahum Tate, which used most of Shakespeare's plot and many of his lines, it was played by such theatrical greats as David Garrick and Edmund Kean, and applauded by Dr. Samuel Johnson. Even Charles Lamb, who disliked the happy-ending version, conceded that it had a certain stageworthiness when he wrote: "Tate has put his hook in ... this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers ... to draw it about more easily...