Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason for Composer Ives's long obscurity is his horror of publicity. Though he has lived and worked in the midst of Manhattan's hubbub, he has never taken any part in the city's musical life. He never goes to concerts, abhors evening dress, is mortally terrified of being photographed. He never reads daily newspapers, and no journalist has ever succeeded in interviewing...
...Washington, North Carolina's ladies' man, Senator Robert Rice Reynolds said of the selection of British Vivien Leigh to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind: "I vigorously protest against... the selection of a foreigner for this . . . part...
When he got back to the East he went to Vermont, got a job acting in a summer camp, followed it by a bit part in a road company. A meeting with Clifford Odets led to better parts in Group Theatre productions, the leading role in Having Wonderful Time, a part in Golden Boy, which got him his Hollywood contract...
Inventor Houdry has an entirely new approach. In his arduous attempts to make gasoline from lignite, he happened on a catalyst (an agent that accelerates chemical action without becoming part of the product it activates) which converted crude to gasoline without the great pressure or heat required in thermal cracking. Unable to get backing in France, he found...
...with his poetry, which best crystallized post-War pessimism, Eliot's post-Munich pessimism is not the paralyzing kind. "On the contrary," he says, "it is all the more essential that authors who are concerned with that small part of 'literature' which is really creative-and seldom immediately popular-should apply themselves sedulously to their work, without abatement or sacrifice of their artistic standards on any pretext whatsoever...