Word: tempester
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Unquestionably a play-going experience that you will remember for many years, Margaret Webster's production of "The Tempest" achieves magnificent effects of gravity and spectacle. Shakespeare's great comedy offers controversial problems in staging and interpretation; the current effort has successfully surmounted them with polish and understanding, for a result that will probably outrank "Othello" in popular appeal...
...many difficult questions inseparable from the united, forward march of the great nations. ... I hope most earnestly and I believe with great conviction that the warrior statesman at the head of Russia will lead the Russian people-all the peoples of Russia*-through the years of storm and tempest into the sunlight of a broader and happier age for all, and that with him in this task will march the British Commonwealth of Nations and the mighty United States of America." Then the British warrior statesman climbed into his bomber, roared...
...nostalgic milestone of the Great Depression was passed in Chicago last week. In 1932, the Reconstruction Finance Corp. lent $90,000,000 to Chicago's Central Republic Bank & Trust Co., stirring up a tempest of criticism. The loan was sourly dubbed "a Government gift." The reason: RFC Chairman Charles G. Dawes had resigned his RFC chairmanship to resume the chairmanship of Central Republic only three weeks before the loan was made. The cash helped ease pressure on all Chicago banks; but Central Republic closed its doors. Deposit accounts were transferred to the City National Bank & Trust Co., now chairmaned...
Archie McConnell, Adams House janitor, found the storm "of gale proportions," but not much heavier than the average "north or south-easter." The only damage was several broken windows in the Randolph section. Accounting for the fact that the hurricane did not reach the proportions of the 1938 tempest, when traffic was halted for several days, McConnell declared sagely that "it went...
...Silence." Principal mouthpiece for the new Auden is Shakespeare's Prospero, the magician in The Tempest, who in his old age throws his books of magic into the sea, breaks his wand, dismisses his wonder-working servant Ariel, abandons his magic island for the mild humdrum of everyday life. In Auden's version, Prospero's farewell to Ariel represents the mature intellectual's adieu to the glorious but unreal life of personal fantasy...