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The play opens and closes in 1858. Its title is something of a misnomer since Wagner's exile dates from 1849, when he fled Dresden after getting mixed up in revolutionary politics. In 1858 the musician and his wife Minna (Evelyn Varden) are under the patronage of Otto Wesendonck...
"Jungle English'' is what Crusader Herbert calls the tangled verbiage so dear to polysyllabic politicians, patriots, businessmen. Many of his horrible examples are taken from the venerable London Times. He translates into Jungle English a passage from the Anglican Catechism ("My duty towards my Neighbour is to love...
Galactodendron Growers! Philoprogenetics! Butchers! Delicatessen! Read "Pork Prices Explained." Translates New Deal dreams. Nickel. Hiram Mann, 77 Wall.
In spite of the whispered query of the garrulous lady who came in during the prison scene, sat down behind your reviewer, and with a sigh asked whether this picture had anything to do with Dante's Inferne, the picture successfully translates and condenses the huge novel into a short...
Author Russell translates into plain English many a little-known name and cloudily-understood theory?the Benthamites and other English philosophical radicals, Marx, dialectical materialism, surplus value. In the wide conclusion he draws from his wide subject he considers nothing so parochial as a U. S. New Deal. But in...