Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scores has already won him two Guggenheim fellowships and the New York Music Critics Circle Award for 1948-49. He had hit on the idea for his opera after seeing the movie Joan of Arc, thought he could supply what the movie had largely left out: Joan's "inner life...
...heavy third suitcase for Mrs. Grant to take on the plane. It was his own rectangular yellow rawhide bag. Only he knew that it was crammed with an ingenious time-bomb lash-up-an alarm clock, a bundle of dry cells, a packet of matches and a folded rubber inner tube filled with gasoline. The clock was set for 2:30 p.m., when United Airlines' flight 258 would be about halfway to San Diego...
During World War I, Picabia, who had inherited his father's fortune, found his true artistic climate in the cynically irreverent Dada movement. As a Dadaist he took apart clocks and made pictures by tracing their inner organs, mounted a stuffed monkey on a board and called it Portrait of Cezanne, edited and contributed to magazines with such names as 291, 391, Cannibale...
Rumors & Denials. Energetic Msgr. Léger was no stranger in the inner councils of the church. The son of a Quebec village storekeeper, ordained in 1929,416 went to Japan, proved himself an able administrator in directing the Sulpician Seminary at Fukuoka, later came back to Canada and taught at the House of Philosophy in Montreal. Since 1947 he has been rector of the Pontifical Canadian College in Rome where he was responsible for the guidance of Canadian priests studying at the Vatican, served as intermediary for important Canadians visiting the Pope. Said one Vatican insider: "I always thought...
...years ago. Malenkov, an adolescent when the Revolution began, is a New Bolshevik. His character was fashioned in the dark and stormy laboratory of civil war, purge trials, slave labor, thought control and the midnight calls of the secret police. He worked his way through the anonymous, self-anointed inner core of the party to its all-highest Politburo, to be Deputy Premier of the U.S.S.R. His rise to a position within touching distance of Stalin's mantle bears considerable portent. After more than three decades, the vast power of the old Communist revolutionaries is passing into the grip...