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...promise of oblivion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot and Fry: Modern Verse Drama | 3/21/1950 | See Source »

...once on the great sights and on the small grey type. Last week, after a blackout of more than a decade, a brand-new Baedeker (on the West German Land Schleswig-Holstein) was again in the hands of travelers. Many a king and government had since become tourists in oblivion, but Mr. Baedeker was back in business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Two-Star Civilization | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...worked 42 hours, making retake after retake, to record 45 minutes of music. At 70 (her birthday is actually July 5), the somewhat mystic, sometimes earthy little Polish-born woman is the acknowledged high priestess of the harpsichord, the sweet-sounding, twangy-bangy instrument she rescued from oblivion 50 years ago. She did not need much preparation before sitting down to record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grandma Bachante | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...there does not seem to be much chance that the activities of the Graduate Student Council will rise from the oblivion which has been their lot in the past. J. Peter Prins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Elections | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

...patient in Bed Ten. My new neighbor was a nice fellow--or at least he never had the opportunity to prove himself otherwise, because he was the monster at rest. He passed twenty-two of his first twenty-four Stillman hours in a state of complete oblivion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sleep Doth Murder Editor | 4/27/1949 | See Source »

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