Word: unfoldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point of view of form, this produces a mixture. The piece is kept from the oratorio class precisely by its subject, which is too eventful and dramatically intense for an oratorio. One cannot help wishing for a physical reaction from the characters as the events of the tragedy unfold: but all they do is stand there and sing...
...Connor's stories are set in small Irish towns where good-natured, bumbling provincials doze through their days in even rhythms, scarcely touched by the frenetic spleen of cosmopolitan existence, and only occasionally shaken into surprised awareness of life's complexities. While these neat tales unfold, Author O'Connor remains in the background, rarely moralizing...
...Sierra Nevadas will unfold countless new types of ski runs before the eyes of the Harvard parallel slat addict, much-traveled members of the Crimson ski team aver. He will be confronted with fabulously long runs, deep snow, steeper grades, and, in many instances, frustrating and maniacally devised slalom courses marked by 150 pines...
...playing of Harvard's Negro tackle, Chester Pierce, in the University of Virginia's Scott Stadium [TIME, Oct. 20], I should like to add that the numerous Confederate flags were not displayed to commemorate this precedent-shattering event. It is virtually standard operating procedure to unfold the flag of the gallant old Confederacy whenever this university plays a "Yankee" eleven here or in the North-so was it last year with Princeton and so will it be with Pennsylvania in Franklin Field this year...
Last week Communist action in Czechoslovakia clicked into the same tragic, repetitive pattern the world had seen in Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania. It began to unfold a fortnight ago when bombs, disguised as perfume boxes, were mailed to Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, currently his country's U.N. delegate, to President Eduard Benes and others. Curiously enough, the bombs were intercepted without so much as a pop. Communists claimed that Benes and Masaryk had mailed the bombs to themselves. Others shrugged them off as a crank's prank...