Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moon Is Down (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Dorris Bowdon, Henry Travers; TIME, April...
...Easter must closely follow a full moon in order to light the way for pilgrims' travel to the festivals. The Council arbitrarily fixed the 14th day of the Jewish "paschal [Passover] month" (in the Jewish calendar, the lunar month when the full moon occurs after the equinox) as the day of the full moon, although the actual full moon is usually one or two days earlier...
These rules meant that Easter could not fall on a fixed date, since it must always follow the changing Passover. This year there was a full moon at 5:08 p.m. on March 21, and the next lunar month after that begins on April 4. Therefore this year Passover will fall on April 18 (the 14th day of the paschal month). Thus Easter Sunday cannot be celebrated until the following Sunday, April...
...Moon Is Down (20th Century-Fox) presents the cinema audience with a ready-made controversy. As novel and play, John Steinbeck's fable about a Nazi garrison's nervous breakdown in Norway kicked up a loud literary row. Were Steinbeck's Nazis softer than the real thing...
...vulnerable to hatred and contempt. The more the picture attempts to make this theme explicit, the more it underlines the fact that Steinbeck's premise is questionable psychology. Conquerors do not expect to be loved, and seldom go to pieces because the conquered fail to embrace them. The Moon is Down may seem to many audiences an extraordinarily naive view of the facts of Nazi life...