Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third of all industrial enterprise. Vishinsky painted a different picture of East Germany. Its industrial output, he said, was 96.6% of 1936-more progress than the 90% claimed for West Germany. Britain's Ernest Bevin, cigarette drooping from a corner of his mouth, thanked Vishinsky for "this tableau of Oriental prosperity," promised to bring it to the attention of the "thousands of refugees" from Soviet Germany...
Last week, hundreds of Boyden's boys were back at Deerfield for the school's 150th anniversary. The school put on a pageant, complete with oxen, stagecoach, blunderbusses, and a tableau of the Deerfield Massacre of1704.* But the sight most visitors had come to see was Frank Boyden himself...
...costumes riding on elephants, while the bands plays "So In Love" in slow march time--that sort of thing. The last of these, the grand finale, is an inspiring hunk of patriotism. "The Glorious Fourth," it is called, and the program says it is a Proud, Rousing, Heart-Clutching Tableau. It is Dedicated to the People of the United State and to All the Free Peoples of the Earth Who Place Their Faith In the Leadership of the President of Our Country in the Struggle to Maintain Their Way of Life Against the Menacing Hordes of World Aggressors. A nifty...
...thousands of doughnutlike oliebollen to sell for a quarter apiece. Every evening in the grammar-school gymnasium, lights burned far into the night while amateur Borculo acrobats sought in vain to match Butcher Bertus van Puffelen's marvelous tumbling feats. A crowd of giggling farm girls rehearsed a tableau vivant, and the village band started practicing The Stars and Stripes Forever. Under the leadership of hefty Grocer Albert Siebers, the rusty Achterhoekse Volksdansers (square dancing) society reconvened, to try out their old steps to the accompaniment of an accordion...
...Poet Ronald Duncan's libretto had plenty of words-a male & female chorus moralized throughout-but it had too little to say and too little action. The rape scene got listeners on seat edge, but the other scenes slowed down to the speed of a grade-school tableau. Even the Herald Tribune's Thomson was disappointed: "There isn't enough music to hold the ear." Wrote his opposite number, Drama Critic Howard Barnes: "Music without a play...