Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went out of the way to give unconvincing performances. Just's Rubashov, snapped a critic, was "a melancholy Don Quixote of the Revolution," and the rest of the actors were only "bearers of cues." Detmold's Red newspaper, Volks-Echo, lambasted the cast and said with a snarl: "Its resistance broke down easily before the propaganda offerings of the Fascist warmongers." Even in taking out Red insurance policies, the actors found themselves refused. The reason given by the insurance company: weak hearts...
When he had finished, the reporter from the Communist Daily Worker asked him if his collective punishment policy was not the same as that used by the Nazis. Templer's lip curled into a smile like a soundless snarl. Grimly he recited the prosaic, ghastly facts & figures he had had to deal with. "I notice you do not deny using the Fascist system," said the Daily Worker reporter. "Didn't bother to," said Templer. The Communist reporter asked: "What is the level of anemic malnutrition in Malaya?" Answered Ternpier: "I haven't the vaguest idea." The reporter...
...Rose and Crown, O'Casey tries to straighten out this snarl, and his means are neither new nor pleasing. He describes the great houses in detail-the Sheraton, the Chippendale, the mother-of-pearl, the ebony, the sparkle of diamonds on "a white and saucy breast." It was a spectacle, he says, "that fair dazzled the eye," and he admits that he found it "elegant," "gracious." even "delightful at times." But he then goes on to say how much it disgusted him. Moreover, his hostesses were all deaf and seemed not to hear when he cried: "Come, sell...
...Religion Snarl...
Last Sunday night, driving back from Scranton, Pa., it was my bad luck to be caught in a crawling, honking, bumper-to-bumper traffic snarl, and I was reminded again of one of the most famous stories ever published in TIME...