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...Elizabeth Hull point up the moments of highest dramatic import. A stylized setting by Eva Le Gallienne presents the entire island scene on one revolving stage and makes the most of the three unities in the play. A minor flaw is Motley's costuming, which is in the nineteenth-century tradition and does not match the rest of the production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 1/12/1945 | See Source »

...Manley Hopkins, Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English, read eight of the most well-known poems by the English author in Sever 11, Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. All of the poems written by this well-liked British Jesuit were published after his death, late in the nineteenth century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spencer Gives Reading Of Poetry by Hopkins | 12/15/1944 | See Source »

Stressing that "Germany has not always been an aggressor," Professor Vietor points out that she "was a peaceful nation in the time of Goethe, Schiller, and the Romanticists." He states, however, that a change came at the end of the nineteenth century, when the country desired to assert itself and oppose the "have" nations such as England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vietor Claims Rehabilitation of Germany Must Begin Internally in Cultural Change | 12/15/1944 | See Source »

Before & behind them companies, battalions, regiments and divisions of the Nineteenth Army still scurried this way & that, like bugs uncovered by the lifting of a stone. On a battlefield long isolated by one of the most precise air operations of the war, they were all but bereft of tanks, bitterly short of food, cut off from all help from their carefully laid supply systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: War Without Pattern | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...when the Americans rolled into Lyons, France's dull, straight-laced third city (pop.580,000), long the world's silk capital. There was no telling how far beyond the city advance guards had penetrated, no telling how far beyond that the Maquis were solidly at work. The Nineteenth was kaput...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: War Without Pattern | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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