Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head of the T.V.A., the President chose three men with opposite notions, not for the general efficiency of the organization but merely to satisfy the various interested parties. As the sparks flew between Arthur Morgan and his subordinate associations, Mr. Roosevelt though it was their turn to move, not his, and sat back satisfied. The rupture came over Senator Berry's marble claim, for Mr. Morgan was thoroughly disgusted by then with the corruption, waste, and monopolistic intention of his organization. But it was Morgan's demand for a thorough Congressional investigation that brought the President face to face with...
...sorry," she said. "You reminded me so much of a body named Vag, an old friend of mine. I've been looking forward to meeting him again His cronies down on the river bank haven't seen hum this year, but they though he might be up here. That's why I breezed...
...characters, splendidly delineated, are mixed together, and allowed to react. The plot is thus simply a series of their chance encounters and repulsions, and seems devoid of design. The characters are all more or less frustrated, and the events produced out of them are all gloomy. But the play, though discursive and depressing, is packed with incidental dramatic values of great force, and contains several large chunks of fascinating dialogue...
Kolbe, like Lehmbruck, never uses the hammer and chisel. Like Lehmbruck, too, his art suggests a man conscious of a world governed by illogical forces. He seeks escape in dreams of gentle adolescence. Youths and maidens take dim shape as though seen from a distance, or through a haze...
...Paloma, though once tremendously popular in Mexico, was written by a Spaniard who lived in Cuba, and both it and La Cucaracha are more Cuban than Mexican in rhythm. Today most of Mexico's music is Spanish in origin. But ancient instruments dug from Aztec tombs prove that Mexico was musical long before Cortez & his Spaniards conquered...