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From a poem. by the Rev. George Crabbe, a 19th-Century English parson-poet, Librettist Montagu Slater had fashioned a psychopathic case history of a sadistic Suffolk fisherman. The first scene is an inquest into the murder of Peter Grimes's boy apprentice. Peter Grimes is exonerated, but the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Music | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

"Fiddle," said Ibis. "Sticks," intoned Jester, reclining in a rine-backed loda. "Maybe we did something wicked. Do you think United Press will persecute us for it?" "perhaps not," mused a weeming twerple from the corner, "because I asked the gentleman by yonder lamp post and he said he didn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erratum | 4/27/1946 | See Source »

Sergeant Jacob D. Deshazer's Hornet-based B-25 bombed Nagoya in 1942 and then got lost in the mists of the China coast. Deshazer chuted down and was taken prisoner by the Japs. As he lay hungry, in solitary confinement, Sergeant Deshazer had a vision. A forgiving God...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pray for Them | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

A recent Jap-like stab in the back by a self styled amateur poet brings us to our feet, pen in hand and a curse on our lips. The "Light," so called, obviously minus his collegiate and Roget's Thesaurus is forced to rely on pilfered phrases such as "peasant...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/24/1945 | See Source »

. . . But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Say unto You.... | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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