Word: ploughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even closer partners in his Wind, Sand and Stars are the pilot and the poet, the mechanic and the metaphysician. Says Author Saint Exupéry: "One doesn't risk one's life for a plane any more than a farmer ploughs for the sake of the plough. But the airplane is a means of getting away from towns and their bookkeeping and coming to grips with reality. ... It plunges a man directly into the heart of mystery...
Strand is president of the board of directors of Frontier Films, an organization dedicated to "the production of films that truthfully reflect the life and drama of contemporary America" and which made "The Wave" and "The Plough That Broke the Plains...
...moved at an early age to Zurich, Switzerland, later went to the University there. He also studied in England and Germany. When he was 14 he decided to become an Orientalist, ordered an Arabic grammar from an astounded bookseller, and rose an hour early every morning to plough through Arabic verbs. Then he plunged eagerly into Hebrew, Syriac, Persian, Chinese. His career as an Orientalist came to an end when his teachers wanted him to specialize. "All my life I have avoided specialization," says Henry Sigerist. He went into science, then medicine, and practiced obstetrics, then studied experimental pharmacology...
...about the barren Ireland of John Millington Synge, not about the bloody and turbulent Ireland of "The Plough and the stars," but about an Ireland where the vulgarity of life is occasionally transcended by the mystery of the days when giants walked the land is Paul Vincent Carroll's "Shadow and Substance." This play, winner of the drama critics' award last year, opened in Boston last night with the original New York cast, starring Cedric Hardwicke...
Ecce Homo (Sat. 7:30 p. m. CBS). Documentary Film Producer Pare Lorentz (The Plough That Broke the Plains and The River) does a documentary radio script on unemployment for Columbia's Workshop...