Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arbitrary arrests. Since the government took over from U.S. military authorities last August, it has closed 16 newspapers and magazines. The latest was the Seoul Shin Mun, the country's largest newspaper. A government spokesman explained that Shin Mun had "reprinted only 40% of official releases in the past four months and is therefore clearly anti-government...
Each Saturday and Sunday for the past three months, a little procession has arrived punctually at 6:30 p.m. at RCA Victor's midtown Manhattan recording studios. The routine never varies. The youngest, Mlle. Denise Restout, goes straight to the harpsichord, yanks open her tool kit, and starts tuning. The huskiest, Mlle. Elsa Schunicke, carries the pillows and the hamper, loaded with sandwiches, a vacuum jug of coffee, and a supply of specially blended horehound drops. Then, her hands folded before her, and her craggy features blissfully composed, Mme. Wanda Landowska herself floats in like a tiny wraith, nods...
...night of cross-burning and hate-spieling at Stone Mountain next week to prove to everybody that his movement wasn't on the skids. But one Southern governor had denounced the Klan, without suffering for it, as a mob of "hooded hoodlums and sheeted jerks," and in the past year antimasking ordinances had been passed in Atlanta, Columbus and Macon, Ga., Miami and Tallahassee, Fla., and a number of smaller communities. In Grand Dragon Green's home town, the fight against him had been led by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Council of Churchwomen and leaders...
...parents are appalled by the news. They blame themselves more than the children, and it is lucky for them that they are so merciful. For, in the very course of probing the children's small sin to the bottom, their own larger sins suddenly escape out of the past and confront them. The family butler turns out to be Sir Roderick's son. One of the schoolteachers proves to be a son of Grandpa Firebrace. And the second Lady Shelley, it turns out, has sold jewelry that does not belong...
Readers will find here, gleaming oddly in its transplanted setting, the pattern of the classical Greek drama which was Author Compton-Burnett's favorite reading as a child. Like Sophocles' Oedipus, struggling to gauge the future and discovering that it twists horribly back into his own past, the characters in Two Worlds march blindly to their fate, doomed from the start but always demanding, with the eloquence and dignity of Aeschylean heroes, their right to respect as well as humiliation. They always get plenty of both from Ivy Compton-Burnett...