Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a poem. by the Rev. George Crabbe, a 19th-Century English parson-poet, Librettist Montagu Slater had fashioned a psychopathic case history of a sadistic Suffolk fisherman. The first scene is an inquest into the murder of Peter Grimes's boy apprentice. Peter Grimes is exonerated, but the townspeople-fishermen, harlots and scowling drunks-still suspect him and set out to persecute him. Peter takes another apprentice to work for him, and the second boy dies in an accident. The villagers hold Peter responsible and drive him out to sea to drown himself. The score is Mozartian...
...erstwhile Japanese prisoners that the Maryknollers chose last week as their new superior general. He is the Most Rev. Raymond A. Lane, 52, since 1940 Bishop of Fushun, Manchuria. A slender, freckled man with thinning red hair, he was born in Lawrence, Mass., turned down a chance for West Point, and turned away from business (with the Liggett drug chain) to become a priest...
...adopt rules of procedure requiring a two-thirds' majority for any action. The small nations opened the meeting with protests that such a rule would reduce to absurdity the already limited powers of the conference. Australia's stocky, hard-hitting Foreign Minister Herbert Vere Evatt (rhymes with rev it) was spokesman for the small nations as he had been at San Francisco; he went to bat for a simple majority rather than a two-thirds' majority rule. He was bitterly seconded by Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak, chairman of the Rules Committee: "The great powers. . .attempt...
This last was pure fantasy. The picture conjured up was one of atomic bootleggers, operating like Kentucky moonshiners, against which the Government would send "rev'nooers" to stop their malefactions...
Born. To the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr, 37, New York Congressman and Harlem preacher; and Hazel Scott, 26, boogie-woogie artist: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Adam Clayton Powell III. Weight...