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Cantor: Hark! Out of the deep . . . Dark . . . Inner vast . . . Gulf of carnal sleep . . . Full, fast . . . Thou up-wellest . . . One . . . As on a sea . . . Remote! . . . No Thee . . . And Thine . . . Ineffable, lavished . . . Zest . . . In ravished . . . Rest . . . Divine! (Soft shudder of great gong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: O Beautiful | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...first flecks of dawn came up over the low hills around Beirut one morning last week, a swarthy, bullet-headed Armenian trudged with leaden steps over the rough courtyard in front of the High Commissariat Building. Softly he crooned a Turkish song: "I have waited for thee, but thou hast not come." Before a crude, hastily constructed wooden structure, he halted. Above the planking, blackly outlined against the grey dawn, dangled a loose rope. Around the platform stood silent native policemen, Syrian officials. They had gathered to witness the hanging of Mejardich Karayan, the 29-year-old Armenian assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Down with Washington! | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...wanted to compare thee to the sun, but the sun only shines on, bright days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Our Sun! | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

When in the first scene 59-year-old George M. Cohan, answering to the name of President Roosevelt in top hat, cutaway and pince-nez, summoned his Cabinet to a meeting in Manhattan's Central Park, playgoers settled down to a show they expected to surpass Of Thee I Sing. But they soon found it was not as good as all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Compared to Of Thee I Sing, with which Author Kaufman, in company then with Morrie Ryskind and the Gershwins. won the Pulitzer Prize for 1931, I'd Rather Be Right is a buttoned, if glistening, foil. The Kaufman-Ryskind play took a swift jab at the heart of the body politician, and the late George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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