Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past nine years, every time Columbia recorded a major work, it made two master records, salted one secretly away for LP (Long Playing) day. Last week, LP day arrived...
Tempered Anarchy. Lady Pamela's concern for her father's future was occasioned by a historic event. Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Governor General of India, was leaving his post. His withdrawal was one more illustration of the general departure of the European master from Asia. Not only in India, but in every country in Asia, men were trying to fill the vacuum of power created by that departure. Communists believed that they, above all others, would succeed...
...mines. Now, 1,325,000-strong, Mexico's burro force still brings huge loads of charcoal down from the hills, jugs of pulque from farms to railheads, drags great beams into Mexico City. Often as not, after a Saturday night, the burro carries home a bleary-eyed master who these days bawls drunkenly...
...about having their discoveries turned into weapons of war. They fear that they will be cast as the real villains of a World War III. This fear is well founded. Last week an anonymous* article in the Christian Century blasted the scientists as "modern mercenaries" who will serve any master, however evil, that helps them in their research...
Rational Sharpness. Short of such majestic challenges, Olivier is as sure in his work, and as sure a delight to watch, as any living artist. No other actor except Chaplin is as deft a master of everything which the entire body can contribute to a role; few actors can equal him, in the whole middle register of acting. He takes such little words as My father's spirit in arms! and communicates and is worthy of their towering poetry. He can toss off lines like For every man hath business and desire in a way to make Shakespeare congratulate...