Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Isn't it illegal to send obscene and indecent matter through the mail...
...Citing Washington reports that the U.S. had hoped to lure Moscow into keeping Japan from attacking Singapore and the East Indies Pravda added: "The 'ungrateful' Soviet Union failed to appreciate such an attitude toward itself and concluded the pact . . . directed against embroiling the Soviet Union in war. Isn't that annoying...
...have the impact and brightness of poems: Kern's exquisite pleasure, under shelter of a fortnight's residential permit, in asking a policeman for the time; Steiners utter lack of interest in the world's news ("For someone swimming under water . . . the color of the fishes isn't important"); the man who stands at a Paris police window seemingly in perfect nonchalance, streaming with the sweat of terror; a magnificent passage in which Steiner watches Germany swing past his train window in the dark; Steiner's observation that for exiles "simply eating together almost takes...
...Hyman, who, although he doesn't measure up to Rupe on ideas, has somewhat more technique, and uses it to full advantage, without going to the extreme of playing in a disorganized style which is best illustrated by the unfortunately popular work of Art Tatum (By the way--Tatum isn't particularly fond of his commercialism. You should hear him when he's just playing for his own kicks...
...conception is concerned, is the most subtly beautiful work O'Neill has ever written." And, in a letter to Professor Packard, who was assistant stage manager in the original production, O'Neill himself said: "It is very near and dear to me--(I'm not sure it isn't the best beloved of them...