Word: veils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vincent d'lndy: Istar, Symphonic Variations (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor, 3 sides). A strip tease on records. The theme of the score comes only after seven variations have been played, to indicate that the Babylonian maid, Istar, has just thrown off her final veil. Performance: lush...
...college yesterday that the Radcliffe girl who masqueraded as a man on Saturday in an unsuccessful attempt to win the HDC's "Mr. Harvard of 1946" title had been the subject of severe disciplinary action by the Radcliffe administration could not be verified last night, as a semi-official veil of censorship was hung over the girl concorned...
...allow the major nations [of India] to separate to their homelands." He warned that any democratic government in a unified India which gave Moslems a permanent minority "must lead to civil war and the raising of private armies." An enthusiastic woman follower tore off her veil, came from behind the purdah screen, mounted the speakers' platform. But Moslem revolutionary ardor was not ready to break with tradition; she was quietly escorted back to purdah by a uniformed guard...
...resources and raw materials? After V-E day, hundreds of scientists, technicians and researchers from U.S. industry, started fine-tooth-combing Germany for the answer. From abandoned mine shafts, underground storehouses, and even river beds came documents, equipment and gadgets. This week officials concerned with the search lifted the veil from some of the 16,000 machines and processes that showed how cleverly the enemy had improvised and improved. Some of them...
...Seventh Veil. Concertos and psychiatry in a well-made British picture...