Word: sackclothed
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...About a modern, grey-flannel Job reduced to sackcloth. Poet Archibald MacLeish's language and logic are on the cloudy side, but the evening is radiant with theatrical excitement...
...Gardner made it her business to set Boston impolitely on its ear. Such a concentric society, she reasoned, would appreciate eccentricity. She chartered a locomotive for a picnic, led a lion on a leash, drank beer at "pop" concerts, and once, during Lent, donned sackcloth and scrubbed the steps of Boston's Church of the Advent. Meanwhile she kept buying pictures, and putting her servants on short rations so that she could do it. Her greatest caprice, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a Venetian palazzo on The Fenway in the midst of Boston, containing some of the world...
...Sackcloth Smocks. At Auschwitz, Anne's long hair was clipped and her eyes seemed to grow larger and larger as she grew thinner. Her gaiety disappeared but not her indomitable spirit. The women were divided into groups of five and, though the youngest of her group, Anne became its leader, partly because she was efficient at scrounging necessities. When during cold weather she and the others were reduced to sackcloth smocks, Anne found somewhere a supply of men's long underwear. She even magically produced a cup of coffee for an exhausted prisoner...
Died. Dorothy Sebastian, 50, oldtime (1925-32) cinemactress (Sackcloth and Scarlet, Our Dancing Daughters) and onetime (1930-36) wife of William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd, with whom she appeared in His First Command, The Big Gamble; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...screams of the hysterical mob. The reaction of first-night critics was divided. Some were charmed by the opera's lyricism and moved by its emotional power; others found its music imitative or thought they detected in the more elegant passages the old prewar Poulenc peeping through the sackcloth. "Fine theater, but mediocre music," said Corriere della Sera Music Critic Franco Abbiati. Said the widely read Socialist daily Avanti! chauvinistically: "A truly French poverty in the primary operatic materials." But the Scala opening-night audience, toughest opera audience in the world, rewarded beaming Composer Poulenc by giving the production...