Word: squalidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of ballads rather than newspapers, and of myths rather than statistics. In London's squalid streets magnificence belonged alone to the church and state, and genius lived in the persons of the statesmen-Sir Philip Sidney, Cecil and Raleigh-as much as in Shakespeare, who celebrated the glory of Elizabeth's monarchy. It was also a time of all-embracing religious conflict; when religion then walked not only the hairline of individual faith but the tightrope of policy. Catholic and Protestant were "in a state of mind near insanity" over the tortures they inflicted on each other...
Papal Message. In his capital city of Teheran, where his own life is not squalid, the Shah was silent on his Peacock Throne. But Iranian court circles pointed out that the staunchly Roman Catholic house of Savoy was used to religious difficulties. Maria Pia, Ella's sister, married Alexander of Yugoslavia, who belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church. Her Aunt Giovanna married Orthodox King Boris of Bulgaria, and the pledge to raise their children as Roman Catholics was given but not fulfilled. Yet Pope Pius XI sent Queen Giovanna a message carrying his blessings and esteem -and the message...
...East-West love feast that surrounds Flower Drum Song is no accident, for Rodgers and Hammerstein themselves have reached an almost Oriental serenity in an otherwise hectic and often squalid business. As much as any of their Chinese characters, R. & H. have family feeling. Since they have a permanent production outfit (unlike most other theater men, who fold up after each show), they have given employment to generations of performers. Example: one of Flower Drum's brightest young dancers, Patrick Adiarte, 15, started at eight as one of the younger children in The King and I, kept on playing...
...starts off simply enough, but soon is complicated because it develops that the boys love each other, too. Coward is never gauche and never explicit, but as you can see, this heightens the interest in his study of apparently useless individuals and their diversions. We are diverted from a squalid studio in Paris to a thinly elegant apartment in London to a blatantly elegant one in New York, which proves that Coward knew that useless individuals also could be profitably diverted to the theatre in those three cities, for the purpose of seeing themselves onstage...
...refused to publish the book-a bestseller in the U.S. and Europe-the highest honor in the literary world came as a dastardly capitalist insult, and they promptly went into one of their vitriolic temper tantrums. The Moscow Literary Gazette sputtered that the award was made "for an artistically squalid, malicious work replete with hatred of socialism," written by a traitor, and Pravda said that this "malevolent Philistine" would regret the prize if there were "a spark of Soviet dignity left in him." Prizewinner Pasternak, a gentle genius of craggily handsome countenance and unflinching integrity, sent the Nobel committee...