Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opened. The greatest need for China is peace . . . but now it is possible and indeed likely that if China is to have peace, it can only be assured through a civil war fought to some kind of a decision. Without communications, China cannot survive, and today the plain fact is that until one side or the other clears those railroads, there can be no effective communications. . . . With Nationalist forces in control of the main lines below the Great Wall, with cities free, some measures of recovery can go forward. Continued Communist guerrilla warfare will not permit the Government to relieve...
Happy Birthday (by Anita Loos; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) shows what a frightening assortment of drinks in a Newark ginmill did to-and for-a prim, plain-looking little librarian (Helen Hayes). On any realistic basis, abstemious Addie Bemis, loaded with pink ladies, whiskey, sloe gin and champagne, would doubtless be violently sick by 10 o'clock; but Happy Birthday is far from realistic, and by 11 o'clock gaily gyrating Addie has copped herself a husband...
...debut as Sieglinde in Die Walküe, Flagstad sang Brünnhilde and Lauritz Melchior Siegmund. Traubel's opulent tones sent critics away raving. Said the New York Times: "The voice is a glorious one." After an Ann Arbor concert, a reviewer put it in good plain Michigan talk: "Miss Traubel hoisted a couple of tones across Hill Auditorium that could have been used for girders...
Diamond v. Ruby. The most provocative argument in opera today is who is the greater-Flagstad or Traubel. If Flagstad were to return (as now seems unlikely) who would have the top roles? For the 1946-47 season the answer is plain: Traubel is signed up. There is no doubt that the Met finds it easier to work with the untemperamental Traubel-and the Met is always willing to let well enough alone. Because European opera houses have been shattered and their companies scattered, the Met has become, by a survival of the luckiest, perhaps the leading opera house...
...book is filled with the stench of dead horses and dead men rotting on the vast Ukrainian plain. Malaparte was in Jassy on the night of the pogrom when 7,000 Jews were killed in the streets. He was allowed to visit the Warsaw brothels whose girls the Germans killed after a short period to replace them with fresh victims. There are chilling pictures of the Warsaw ghetto...