Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dark Descent. Miss West's book is a descent into the circles of a drab inferno. It was reached through several pit heads-the bomb-battered building of London's Central Criminal Court, the House of Lords, a court martial near the blitzed waterfront at Portsmouth. Above all, it was reached through the collapsing corridors of many ruined minds...
...Pit. Circle No. 4 is the pit. Here, in that ambiguous clarity which Milton called "no light but rather darkness visible," are two architects of betrayal. These men committed not the treason of the unlighted mind, like Kenneth Edward or Herbert George, nor the treason of depravity like John Amery, but the fully conscious treason of ideas. One was a Communist. One was a Fascist...
Backstage, 29-year-old Yugoslav Soprano Daniza Ilitsch, late of a Nazi concentration camp, nervously awaited the call for her first Met performance as Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. In the pit, a new Italian conductor, Giuseppe Antonicelli, was making his Met debut...
Last week, he sent back his first impressions from Tokyo: "The Japanese here are considerably smaller than [Nisei]. One wonders that their war lords ventured to pit them against the Americans . . . until he remembers how they defeated the Russians, Germans, English, French, Dutch and Australians. . . ." The Colonel was pleased by the bearing of U.S. occupation troops: "I feel that America . . . will not be defeated ... by our anti-American representatives at Lake Success...
...were out to get the biggest slice they could, and to hell with us miners. But this Government can't seem to make up its mind and it interferes in the wrong places. You should see some of the red tape and regulations clerks that never saw a pit face can dream...