Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign affairs. On the BBC "Brains Trust" program (the English equivalent of Information Please) Laborite Barbara was one participant who never said "I don't know." Audiences loved her for her quiz-kid memory. Between broadcasts she lectured on politics and economics, labored for the liberal Roman Catholic "Sword of the Spirit" movement...
...choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins. . . . Their confidence was founded on the prophecy of an enthusiast or an impostor . . . that an angel would descend from heaven with a sword in his hand, and would deliver the empire...
...usual, readers must grant Author White (The Sword in the Stone, Mistress Mas ham's Repose) a basic, whimsical conceit. This time the Archangel Michael slithers down the chimney of an Irish farm where Mr. White is boarding, warns of an imminent flood and appoints the author as a latter-day Noah. The idea is pretty thin to start with, and it is not even corn-fed from there on. The building of the Ark, for instance, is a nail-by-nail account that only a carpenter might care to follow. Author White, who wrote the book in County...
...sprang forward, with my sword in my hand. The black creature suddenly contracted toward the foot of the bed . . . and [fixed me) with a glare of skulking ferocity and horror. ... I struck . . . with my sword. ... I pursued, and struck again. But [the "vampire] was gone! and my sword flew to shivers against the door...
...while it is evoking mood, Brigadoon does not make the mistake of ignoring movement. The show is almost more danced than acted; and Agnes de Mille's folk dances and reels and sword dances have spirit and style. The whole show, indeed-with its attractively youthful cast, its pretty sets and handsome costumes- has been carefully woven together. A good deal of Broadway's savvy lurks behind Brigadoon's charm...