Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hendaye. At 8:20 next morning, the de luxe Pyrenées-Côte d'Argent Express pulled into Hendaye station. And there the glistening blue cars sat for four hours, caught in a snarl of bureaucratic red tape. Paris had forgotten to order the Hendaye station master to let the train through, and he liked to have his orders. Sixty of the passengers, members of Milan's La Scala Opera, volubly wondered if they would get to Lisbon in time for their performance of Rigoletto. Paris finally sent "a thousand regrets," and the express rolled...
...less widely known but no less vehemently damned, were Vissarion Shebalin, Gavriil Popov, Nikolai Myaskovsky and Vano Muradeli. Like the Soviet artists and writers condemned by the Committee in recent months, they were charged with falling for pernicious Western glitter. The verdict of the Committee, signed by the purge-master of arts, Andrei Zhdanov: "[Their works] smell strongly of the modern bourgeois music of Europe and America which reflect the marazm [wasting away] of bourgeois culture...
Norm Ellis, the saber expert, Captain John Gay, Tom Master son and Bill Raney will lead the Varsity attack...
...through the play itself. Such was the case last night at the Colonial, where the skillful hand of Director Peter Ashmore was even more prominent than the oh-so Shavian phrases of G.. B. Shaw and the excellences of the acting. Mr. Ashmore showed himself to be a master of style, to have a fine sense of movement, and to understand completely and sympathetically the temperament of the piece and the period with which he was involved...
...harried to be happy. But they like to think of themselves as too unsentimental to get lost. In his second novel, Merle Miller (29) attempts an aftermath-of-war pastiche of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, winds up with an embarrassing imitation of his master's style and a case history of three neurotic young men whose problems would be much the same with or without...