Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Landowska's brown eyes still kindle in the ashes of her face at the mention of her "ghosts." This small empress in exile from her time has lived with them for most of her life. For her they are alive. And it is entirely conceivable that if one day her door should open, bringing a visitor named J. S. Bach into her instrument-cluttered, timeless room, Wanda Landowska would not so much as lift her bird's-wing eyebrows in surprise. She would probably continue the conversation she has been having with him across the strings...
People Unadulterated. In discussing the faiths they live by, barely half of the contributors to This I Believe found it necessary to mention "God" and only ten owned up to having any formal religious belief. Among them: Poet Robert Hillyer, Educator Elizabeth Gray Vining, National League Umpire Ralph ("Babe") Pinelli. (Said Umpire Pinelli: "I believe in my God, my family, my country and baseball...
...both ("to assert that liberty is dead is the same as saying that life is dead"). When Mussolini came to power, Croce retired to Naples, where he waited out the course of Fascism, constantly badgered Mussolini in his magazine La Critica. Il Duce never dared molest "Don Benedetto" (although mention of his name and works were banned from the press) because, as he once remarked: "There is one man in all Italy whom I fear-Croce, and I fear him because I do not understand...
...police official said last night several of the group's 30-odd agents "undoubtedly" operated out of Harvard Square. He declined, however, to mention the location of the book-makers. The individual runners have not yet been apprehended, because they were known only by code numbers and nicknames...
Unlike painters, most contemporary poets are active in public affairs. William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, to mention a few, are doctor and insurance salesman respectively. Of this group, Archibald MacLeish has been the closest to the nerve center of public opinion, political foray, and philosophic debate. Assistant Secretary of State, Assistant Director of the Office of War Information, and planer of the United Nations Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organization are among the positions that he has held...