Word: treating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the gathering at City Hall in the morning, through the streets of Boston to the historic square--"if we live that long"--the band will treat the onlookers to old favorites by Sousa, Lithgow, Hall, and others, as well as some lesser-known marches. Prokoffief and Milhand will be conspicuous by their absence when the brass biares forth such martial strains as R. B. Hall's "S.I.B.A. March," which the band fondly dedicates to the Staten Island Boilermakers' Association...
...recommend that the radio industry take control of its programs and that it treat advertising as it is treated by the best newspapers...
...when FitzGerald was 44, he published, at his own expense, his translation of six works by Spanish Playwright Calderon (which the Athenaeum considered "quite unnecessary to treat as a serious work"). Then a friend introduced him to what FitzGerald dubbed "the Sweetmeat, Childish, Oriental World" of the Persian language. Three years later, he braved the critics with a rendition of the Persian poem, Salaman and Absal...
Almost all of them had read and discussed the book. Leading Siamese critics and historians had taken pains to point out that it was more than 75% inaccurate (refined King Mongkut, for example, had certainly never burned a wife). The criticisms only made the movie more of a treat, because most Siamese had expected the royal family to ban it altogether, or censor it beyond recognition. But the President of the Regency, faithful to Anna Leonowen's precepts, had decided after careful consideration to leave it alone. "The people want to see the film in its entirety," he said...
...discussing the novel, Kapstein considered it on its merits as a work of art, not as Forster's first book. Forster he pointed out, does not treat his characters in the traditional realism of Dreiser where the hero is trapped by his environment but shows the effect of successful battle against inhibiting surroundings...