Word: rea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side, the utilities argue that the lower rates are a sham. Private companies pay 16 percent taxes while public ones pay six or seven percent in lieu of taxes. Public plants can also obtain finances at a low interest rate from the REA while the private company must go to the money market. This last argument has less significance that it used to because of the fallen interest rate. But these companies insist that the tax differential amounts to a subsidy of the public plants. Their argument is summed up in a caption that appeared under a picture...
...GARDNER REA...
...Look About You." Monte Cassino's abbot, white-haired Ildefonso Rea, last week recalled that the Abbey's motto is succisa virescit (cut down, it grows again). He said quietly: "This monastery was founded in the 6th Century. Four times* it has been destroyed, and every time, no matter how long it took, Monte Cassino has risen again. Nature shows us the urgent will to live. Look about you. Half-burned tree trunks are sprouting fresh and vigorous shoots...
Crime and Punishment (adapted from Dostoevsky's novel by Rodney Ackland; produced by Robert Whitehead & Oliver Rea) is perhaps too great a novel to be tampered with. But by the same token it would seem able to withstand a lot of tampering. Dostoevsky's great study of crime and punishment is also a tense story of crime and detection. Before its arrogant Nietzschean murderer Raskolnikov (John Gielgud) is guided toward confession and atonement by a humble Christian prostitute (Dolly Haas), he is played with, cat-&-mouse, by the Moscow police...
Medea (freely adapted from the Greek of Euripides by Robinson Jeffers; produced by Robert Whitehead & Oliver Rea) seemed to many first-nighters last week what it seemed to Macaulay a hundred years ago-Euripides' greatest play. To be sure, Euripides didn't have much to do with last week's enthusiasm. More in the limelight was Poet Robinson Jeffers for his quite free, sometimes florid, but generally effective adaptation. Still more in the limelight was John Gielgud for his skillful staging (though not for his performance as Jason). Most in the limelight was Judith Anderson...