Word: persons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who have seen Benjamin Britten find it hard to believe that he could conceive so violent a play as Peter Grimes: it is almost like Baby Snooks reading lines from Medea. He is the kind of person no one remembers meeting at a party. Usually to be seen in a loose tweed coat, slacks and sweater, his hands habitually stuffed into his pockets, he has a rather tight, lean, nosy face which wrinkles easily into a vinegarish smile under a widow's peak of crinkly hair. He has a very English embarrassment about expressing emotion about anything...
Robert Riskin, it is reasonable to suppose, must be a very brave man. He has allowed his name to appear portentously in all publicity concerning "Magic Town," a deed which serves to point him out publicly as the person chiefly responsible for this poor and clumsy movie. And such an admission requires courageousness beyond the ordinary, as it is no ordinary density that fails to achieve something worthwhile with the services of James Stewart and Jane Wyman...
...does he act?' ". . . The sage whose mind is unruffled in suffering, whose desire is not to rouse by enjoyment, who is without attachment to anger or fear-take him to be one who stands at that lofty level. "He, who wherever he goes, is attached to no person and to no place by ties of flesh; who accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor shrinking from the other-take him to be one who is merged in the infinite...
...pick up butt while it is still lying by person who threw it away- especially if thrower is from over there [the U.S.]. Might have hand stepped...
...Section 14. Violation of the preceding section by any employer or by any public officer or any other person acting for an employer, or by any person accepting employment in violation of the preceding section, shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both...