Word: moor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first overt act by Germany against the U.S. in World War II was the torpedoing of the freighter Robin Moor, six months before Pearl Harbor. The sinking brought a burning rebuke from Franklin Roosevelt, touched off new verbal skyrockets in the already explosive isolationist-interventionist debate. North Dakota's Senator Nye "guessed" that the British had sunk her-then hastily retracted. For obvious reasons, Germany kept...
...tiny stage of a straw-hat theater in Cambridge, Mass, last week Paul Robeson made his first U.S. appearance in Othello. After seeing him, scholars might still insist that Shakespeare meant Othello for a Moor and not a Negro. But drama lovers well might ask why, having played it twelve years ago in London, Robeson waited so long to play it over here. For in spite of muffing certain speeches-his lines sometimes throbbed awkwardly-and overacting certain scenes-his Grand Manner sometimes burst a seam-Robeson gave a performance that even at its worst was vivid and that...
...destroying Othello's soul, Robeson does not rely upon his magnificent voice alone. To this he adds a remarkable depth of emotion which is essential in making Shakespearean tragedies believable. It is the realization of feeling behind Robeson's words and actions that makes the audience accept the Moor as a very real, terrifying, but pitiful character...
Another time Sam watched Black Cawper, the local strong man, fight an almost Icelandic battle on the moor, from dusk to dawn, with a supernatural blond giant. When Black lost, he said: "Ba gum, Ah'd like to tak' thee hoam and hev a pup off'n thee!" Black's son Ian was the first blond Cawper in generations...
...Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry (Macmillan; $2.50), edited by Hugh MacDiarmid, is a definitive collection of Scottish verse (much of it written in the Scots' language); and the editor, in an introductory essay as prickly with his native thought as a Highland moor is with heather, goes a long way towards putting Scottish poetry into its right place in the total perspective of the world's literature. Scottish poetry, Editor MacDiarmid points out, is capable of being both genuinely literary, and popular with the common people-something that English poetry has never succeeded in being. Editor MacDiarmid makes...