Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Repeat Performance (Eagle-Lion) is a melodrama about an actress (Joan Leslie) who kills her drunken playwright husband (Louis Hayward) on New Year's Eve. She wishes that she could live that year over, except for its climax. When she finds her husband alive and as nasty as ever, and everyone else carrying on as if it were exactly a year ago, with no foresight of calamity, she realizes that Fate has granted her wish...
...though it had been written by Henry Wallace instead of Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre. It declared that the U.S. and Soviet Russia must learn to live together in one world, must "learn that in their realm of thought all opposing ideas can exist-must learn that or repeat 'Your death is my life.' " The conflict between Russia and the West is not primarily ideological, but material, said L'Osservatore, and to be understood in terms of security. "Russia . . . fought not for the Communist idea but for the life of the nation." Since ordinary people place survival...
...State Department consulted with Britain on a tough note of protest. It would charge Russia with illegal intervention in Hungarian affairs, in violation of the tattered Yalta agreement; demand a full Big Three investigation of Russia's role in Hungary; repeat Vandenberg's threat that the Hungary case might be carried...
...back to its ante-bellum national footing, this year's IC4A meet will be pretty much of an Eastern affair. Neither Southern Cal nor Illinois will be around. Of the 44 colleges which will be on hand, NYU, winner of the winter IC4A's, will be favored to repeat...
...range baritone sax and plenty of trombone on one end, and a couple of trumpet men who could skid up to high F on the other, so that he could spread the chords. His music was carefully arranged except for solos. The Duke says "being able to repeat your solo is to me a virtue," a clear violation of the jazz fancier's shibboleth that only the improvised is inspired...