Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tortured Hanan who bewitched Leah. To exorcise his spell she was led before an ancient rabbi to whom Sender admitted his treachery, gladly consented to renounce half his riches. Persistent prayers were said over Leah, who dropped lifeless when Hanan's spirit left her. Finale came with their love duet, frankly lyrical, typically Italian, which brought Detroiters cheering to their feet...
Middle section of Dramatis Personae consists of fragments of a later diary, notes on the death of Synge. Some typical Yeatsian epigrams: "My father says, 'A man does not love a woman because he thinks her clever or because he admires her, but because he likes the way she has of scratching her head.' " "Emotion is always justified by time, thought hardly ever." "I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and har lots." "A gentleman...
...friend and longtime enemy, George Moore. To Lady Gregory, Yeats owed not simply a colleague's loyalty but a more personal debt. When he was a young man of 30 and she a widow of 45 they met, and she rescued him from the slough of "a miserable love affair" by taking him around to peasants' cottages, setting him to collect their folklore. She kept lending him money so that he could write what and how he pleased. Till he was nearly 50, Yeats's writing never brought him in more than ?200 a year. Until...
...AWAY BLACKBIRD-Jerrard Tickell -Morrow ($2.50). Open-air love story about a clean-cut, strangely noble Irishman and a Viennese beauty who married a rich rake to pay her daddy's bills...
...quest for new titles to old dishes. And the tripe served up this time needs a new name, indeed. A lot of vacuous material is handled in a devil-may-care fashion, but the effect usually falls short of amusing. A soapy soap heiress (Bette) falls in love with a surly reporter (George Brent). She proposes to him in an up-side-down machine in an amusement park (where Bette is escaping from her normal position), in a manner so abrupt as to be calculated to take George's and your breath. The female proposal is standby number...