Word: naturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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An old Zionist was discussing the future of their country with an immigrant newly arrived in Israel. "We have a great task before us here," he said. "We must make of Israel everything that Moses foresaw for the promised land." "Indeed we must," said the newcomer. "We must make a...
Natural Causes. Then came another war. When the Japs took Shanghai, young Bill was captured, and in 1943 sent to the Bridge House Prison Camp. A year later his father received word from the War Office that young Bill had died of "natural causes" in the prison.
He never got to be much good at it, and who cared? Painting, Churchill decided, suited him down to the ground. "There is no subject," he wrote, "on which I feel more humble or yet at the same time more natural . . . Painting a picture is like fighting a battle ... If...
¶ Senator McKellar (attacked by Pearson for his reprehensible spoilsman's practices): "An ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar ... a paid liar ... a natural-born liar ... a liar by profession, a liar for a living ... a liar in the daytime and a liar in the nighttime . . . this...
There are two additional hardships put upon the audience and the actors by the modernization that possibly did not occur to the Idlers. Modern audiences expect modern plays (as this one now is) to have a plot they can follow or else no plot at all. "The Way of the...