Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slowly the Russian walked around his charges and approached the couple. Slowly a grin covered his face. He tapped the woman on the back. She shuddered. Rigid apprehension spread over the faces of the onlookers, but the Russian rumbled soothingly: "Keine Angst. Keine Angst." (No fear. No fear.) Then he waved the muzzle of his Tommy gun toward the prisoner, who instinctively recoiled a step, and asked: "Dein Mann...
Ivan the Terrible. Sergei Eisenstein's resplendent, rigid portrait of Russia's first Czar (TIME, April...
...three-quarters of the space given to the four mystery novels in this collection. It kept Thackeray reading all through one night although Collins used neither professional sleuth nor police to unravel his chilly horrors. "In our own over-specialized, disintegrated times," notes Editor Maurice Richardson, "there are the rigid categories of detective story, thriller, and ghost story, with several subdivisions to each . . , but in the last century they could all be lumped together as Tales of Mystery and Imagination." Along with The Woman in White in Editor Richardson's omnibus are Robert Louis Stevenson's* famed...
...night settled on the capital of all the Russias, white shirt fronts gathered in rigid radiance and evening gowns swayed scented attendance: Foreign Minister Molotov was giving a banquet for his fellow peacemakers. The dinner (caviar, pheasant, ice cream) was almost frugal by official Soviet standards, and the toasts were grimly optimistic. Said Ernie Bevin as he proffered his glass: "We four must not let the people of today or tomorrow say there were men who had a chance to save the world and muffed...
Chopin: Concerto No. 2 in F Minor (Artur Rubinstein, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conducting; Victor, 7 sides). Chopin, never at his ease in large, rigid forms, played superbly by Rubinstein, always at his best in Chopin. Performance: excellent...