Word: slaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enclosed find a photograph which was removed from a slain Jap on Okinawa. The lady in slacks appears to be Amelia Earhart...
Vaslav Nijinsky, lithe, high-leaping ballet great of 30 years ago, reported slain as a madman by the Nazis last May, turned out to be living in a bomb-blasted Vienna hotel. His wife Romola told reporters that he had almost regained his reason when he left a Swiss asylum in 1940, but life in air-raided Europe had set him back again. At 55 he looked 70: his cheeks were sunken from a near-starvation diet (he lost 40 pounds in the past four months). A reporter could hold his attention only by drawing him doodles. Yet, though...
Only the sane were slain. The others were let loose in underground dungeons that dripped water, echoed to the flapping of bats' wings. Reported an Allied officer who visited the dungeons: "Crazy men, dwarfs and giants jumped at us. They laughed and screamed and followed us around in packs...
...little daughter, and finally Sophie herself have extensive visions of what the reunion will be like. Keeping to the brittle comedy mood of the play, Barry uses the visions for satire rather than sentiment, for showing how precocious children and posturing stagefolk dramatize situations. The child sees her father slain by the Other Man; Sophie visualizes her husband's ashes brought to her, by his former mistress, in a silver urn. Then the husband really enters and the story is resolved...
While Rome seethed, the Government decreed a shake-up of the police, a speedup of the purge. The Communists did a triple political somersault: 1) they announced that the slain demonstrator was not a Communist: 2) most of the Communists at the Colosseum, it was said, were not Party members, but belonged to the Movimento Communista (Communist Movement*); 3) they ordered Unità's Editor Spano to confess that he had acted not as a Party man but as an "individual...