Word: hewn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient recorders. Three famous old names are on other new Bach releases: Pablo Casals, in reissues of the unaccompanied Cello Suites Nos. 2 & 3, Wanda Landowska playing the fifth in her harpsichord version of the complete Well-Tempered Clavier (both Victor), and Albert Schweit er (Columbia), in massive, square-hewn readings from the master's organ works Other new records...
...children, but only one, his frail daughter Dolly, ever tugs very hard at Ase's heartstrings. One winter day Ase's mother, half-crazed by Ben's continued absence, takes Dolly walking in a blizzard and loses her. Ase buries his child in a tiny, hand-hewn coffin...
...other side." A lean Liverpudlian, Tom Williamson, boss of the 800,000 General and Municipal Workers, pitched in with the counterattack: "All over Europe, people are scared-who by? Not by Britain or her Allies, but by the Soviet Union." Mineworkers' Leader Ernest Jones chipped in with rough-hewn Socialist logic: "If British miners were called upon to rearm in the interest of American capitalism and the Tory party, there'd be a devil of commotion . . . But . . . where freedom [is] at stake . . . the British miner [will be] in the last ditch of the struggle...
...screenplay, by Director George Seaton and George Oppenheimer, has slicked up and sentimentalized the rather owlish, rough-hewn original story to make a folksy, affectionate film. As the immigrant who aspires to become a good American, horsefaced José Ferrer does his best job of movie acting to date. Eugenie...
...gestures. Charles Nolte, of Billy Budd fame, plays Miss Herbert's husband very weakly. Endowed with an unbelievably cherubic face, Nolte is being type-cast as an unbelievable good character. This may be all right for the symbol of a good man. But no real man, especially a rough-hewn mountaineer, is that good...