Word: trojan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statue of the Trojan on the University of Southern California campus a group of male students meets almost every day. One of them occasionally taps the toe of his artificial leg with his cane...
Boulevards and Boudoirs. Helen Goes to Troy translates Homer into French bedroom farce. Its mythological Greeks and Trojans chase each other around marble bathtubs and across perfumed counterpanes. Its Hellas consists entirely of boulevards and boudoirs. Its Helen, beneath her classical robes, is a bored upper-class Parisienne whose bumbling bourgeois spouse Menelaus (well played by Ernest Truex) is sent on a trip to Naxos, returns unexpectedly to find his wife in bed with Paris, an unawakened but erotically gifted Trojan shepherd...
Even in those prewar days when TIME was banned in Germany, banned in Italy, and banned in Japan for telling the truth too outspokenly, the fat No. 2 Nazi made a point of reading TIME regularly-and Adolf Hitler got a copy each week as the Trojan Horse gift of a truth-loving Norwegian who gave the Führer a subscription every Christmas as an antidote to his own oratory...
...Russians before winter, the German Army was forced to raid the home front merely to exist. Great collections of clothes were taken up, German workers were called out of the factories and sent to the training camps, the Government offices were combed out, and foreign labor-the potential "Trojan horse" that all Germans fear-was imported to keep the productive machine going...
...educational tie-up" by which networks displayed their utility and virtue. Colleges listened as NBC's "Great Plays Series," successor to the Radio Guild, started off in 1938 and in 1938-39 went on a grand tour of the ages, opening with Blanche Yurka in The Trojan Women. Other items that year: Molière, Tolstoi and George Bernard Shaw's own adaptation of Back to Methuselah. In the last three years this sort of thing has been overshadowed by commercial radio theaters, the fresh work of the Columbia Workshop, variety shows...