Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marchand eloquently explains the change in his color and composition: "I used to paint mostly on the Mediterranean," he says,"which is a world of fire. But now I have discovered the complexity of the sun seen through the trees, the feel of moss, ferns and mush rooms, the moist wonder of a grey wood in the early morning when the cobwebs are cradling the dew, whereas at the sea you can't get away from the horizontal line. And another thing: where there are lakes and streams in the forest the skies are down in the water...
...Whole World Over (adapted from the Russian of Konstantine Simonov by Thelma Schnee; produced by Walter Fried & Paul F. Moss) is a Soviet comedy without a teaspoonful of Soviet propaganda. Indeed, even in the way of plot it would be hard to find anything less revolutionary. Laid in Moscow, the play deals with housing shortages, postwar readjustments and, above all, love-as they exist the whole world over...
...Streptomycin still looks like the most promising foe of tuberculosis, but Dr. Alfred Marshak of the U.S. Public Health Service found another likely-looking one: a yellow crystal extracted from California Spanish moss (not to be confused with the lacy Spanish moss that hangs from trees). It checks T.B. in guinea pigs, has still to be tested...
...boats are blunt-ended like the punts still popular on conservative British rivers. Forty-five feet long by four feet wide, they were built of four-inch, hewn-oak planks, laced together with yew-fiber ropes, the seams caulked with moss. They showed that the ancient Britons were seagoing (or at least river-going) long before the Romans discovered them...
Christopher Blake--At the Plymouth. Moss Hart's first play since his wartime pageant, "Winged Victory,' and a very controversial drama it is. Reactions to it have varied all the way from a "shoo-in for the Pulitzer Prize" to "not a success," with many puzzled audiences unable to make up their their minds. It deals with the problem of divorce and leans heavily (some say too heavily) on dream sequences, with the crisis coming in the child's choice between his mother and father. At any rate, it is a theatrical experience of high order...