Word: tempest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title of "This Music Crept By Me Upon the Waters" is taken from Act I of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." It is, as MacLeish says, "a play about a moment in time," and is set on the tropical island of Bahama. It tells of two people, a dissatisfied wife and a disconsolate stranger, finding a moment of understanding under the spell of the moonlit waters. Besides Amanda Steele, the cast includes Michael Laurence, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Towell, William M. Hunt, and Clive Parry. Directing will be Mrs. Mark DeWolff Howe...
...conservative-for we can conceive of no higher commission that history could have conferred upon us than that which we humbly bear-the preservation, in this time of tempest and of peril, of the spiritual values that alone give dignity and meaning to man's pilgrimage on this earth...
...villainous role extremely uncomfortable and began to needle the paper for all kinds of past errors which had never before even entered the controversy. The summer paper finally agreed to publish without editorials, and as a face-saving gesture changed its name to The Summer News. But the tempest magnified from a little harmless wind left both the CRIMSON and the Summer School smarting from publicity which did not help either in the least. -MICHAEL MACCOBY -Reprinted from the Alumni Bulletin, September...
...jungle is noisy with the beat of tom-toms and the sound of witch doctors crying, Chifwambal It means "Europeans are eating Africans." London professes to be little worried by the rumbles, and one Colonial Office man, obviously proud of his talent as a phrasemaker, spoke of "a tempest in a teagarden." But British planters, who have evacuated their women & children to the market town of Blantyre, remember that London once classified Kenya's Mau Mau as a "minor incident...
Alfred Noyes is to English poetry much what the Royal Academy is to English painting. In his 72 years, Noyes has watched the breaking of storm upon storm of "experimental" poetry, but each tempest has only strengthened his conviction that the poet's best anchorage is somewhere between Swinburne and Kipling. Thus, in an age when poetry has become increasingly hard to understand, Noyes's lyrics have remained, for better or worse, untouched by intellectual complexity...