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Poor disappointed Don Carlo, Wanting a Queen for his doll-o, Found that his midnight visitor Was only the Grand Inquisitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Tenor Who Rhymes | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

Marvin E. Mazie '52 gives the "Apology of Socrates," from "Plato's Dialogues." Marvin S. Sadik '55 will give the speech of the Inquisitor from Shaw's "Saint Joan." Harry L. Senger '53 will give selections from Willard Motley's "Knock on Any Door." Stanley E. Tobin '53 will present the "Plumed Knight," by James G. Blaine. Pirie M. Tutchings '54 will give the "Independence Day Speech of the Chain Gang Boss," from Paul Green's "Hymn to the Rising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finals for Boylston Contestants Scheduled Next Wednesday Night | 3/19/1952 | See Source »

Looking earnestly at his inquisitor through heavy-rimmed glasses, Dr. Michalek said: "It's one of those things you can't account for. You check it, and then you just don't know how to account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Wrong Bottle | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

Each prisoner had his personal inquisitor. Stypulkowski's was a stocky, yellow-faced major named Tichonov. Meshing physical with psychological tactics, Tichonov soon tightened his prisoner's nerves till they hummed. First, there was the long ominous walk from the cell to the examining room,hands pinned back. Dry-mouthed with anxiety, Stypulkowski might find Tichonov cajoling or coercive but never twice in a row the same. "You German hireling!" (or sometimes, "British spy"), he would rant. "Don't try to cheat the Soviet Union. . . We know everything." Or, satan-smooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Flesh Is Weak | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Arms & the Men. Du Pont took the H-bomb job with the greatest reluctance. Ever since a U.S. Senate committee investigated the munitions industry in 1934, Du Pont has sought to avoid anything that might revive the "merchants of death" stigma which the committee's inquisitor, a skillful young lawyer named Alger Hiss, helped hang upon it. But the Government thought that Du Pont was the only company for the job. Said an atomic energy expert: "To ask anybody else to build the plant when you could get Du Pont would be like settling for a rookie when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Wizards of Wilmington | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

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