Word: plaint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rank's plight was put on England's 40% entertainment tax, through which the Labor government got $25,000,000 from Rank's films alone. Said Rank: "Too much of the industry's life blood is being drained out of the box office." His plaint was echoed by Sir Alexander Korda, independent moviemaker who has also had his troubles, and who has also asked for aid in the form of tax relief for the industry...
This time, the horses engendered no com plaint. At last there had been brought to the screen, with such sweetness, vigor, insight and beauty that it seemed to have been written yesterday, a play by the greatest dramatic poet who ever lived. It had never been done before.* For Laurence Olivier, 38 (who plays Henry and directed and produced the picture), the event meant new stature. For Shakespeare, it meant a new splendor in a new, vital medium. Exciting as was the artistic development of Laurence Olivier, last seen by U.S. cinemaddicts in films like Rebecca and Wuthering Heights...
Isamu Inouye, a Tokyo commentator, broadcast a dismal plaint: "There is no place where the wounds do not appear. . . . Communications are in disorder, homes have been burned . . . clothes are covered with dust. . . . The Japanese people, who love bathing so much, are not able to bathe. . . . Even the vegetables of the family gardens . . . were entirely blown away by this recent typhoon. . . . Through the roofs of the people's very humble temporary living quarters . . . shines the moon and also leaks the rain...
...play, or a novel or a poem or a painting, is called whatever it's called. There's no mystery in this connection about "Over Twenty-One." It's about a 39-year old newspaper editor in a Florida Army training camp, and a recurring theme, or plaint, is built around the fiotsam that a man "can't absorb anything after he's passed...
...natural lives to even recall them. We've learned a lot and we've unlearned a lot. Many of us have gotten a little older, in fact, name of us even shave now. We'll never forget these months spent here at Harvard. But isn't that the plaint of all when the end of any period of memorable happenings comes to a close...