Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ultimate accolade: a full-and fancy-dress parody. In the season's least subtle anagram, it is signed Myra Buttle; it represents the rebuttal to Eliot of a waspish and clever Cambridge lecturer in Far Eastern history named Victor Purcell (possibly, the publishers heavily hint, he had some distinguished anti-Eliot collaborators, including Robert Graves and C. Day Lewis). In Britain The Sweeniad-titled for Apeneck Sweeney, Eliot's loathed modern subman-has already provoked tempests in all the best literary teapots. "Bravo!" cried Graham Greene. "A delight," said Bertrand Russell (who was once more or less described...
Larrazabal's difficulties in forming even this first, most temporary kind of government gave a strong hint of greater troubles to come. Since its beginning in 1830, Venezuela has been controlled by a long line of strongmen. To make the possibility of civilian government even more remote, Pérez Jiménez and his police saw to it that threatening political organizations were flattened as soon as they appeared, and their leaders jailed, exiled or gunned down...
...since the war, he had all the technique he needed and some to spare. The familiar music poured from his bow in purling, honey-sweet ribbons of sound. His inflections were a marvel of etched sensitivity, his pianissimos feathery light, his fortissimos bold and clear, with no hint of blurring. Kogan played the concerto with no apparent effort, smiled shyly to a thunderous ovation, which brought both audience and orchestra to their feet. Said he modestly: "The piece has plenty of technical difficulties to entertain the audience...
College officials gave no hint on whether Erdelatz would be named. They did say he would meet reporters at a news conference later this afternoon...
...Democrats get the slightest hint that domestic programs are being cut in the interests of a balanced budget, the real yelling will start. With a good chance to make a Congressional sweep in November, the Democrats won't be missing a trick, particularly on such tangible programs as housing, conservation, farm supports, and school construction...