Word: washed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WILLIAM ALRICK Seattle, Wash...
...week instructor. The Waldrons went their separate ways, Nora to go into show business, Amelia to work in a library. Frankie, seedy-looking and burning-eyed, with a shock of wild hair, went off to teach Marxist economy at a youth seminar at a Finnish community in Woodland, Wash...
...week's end, from Vancouver, Wash, to Vancouver, B.C., there was only one topic of conversation-the quake. But, most agreed, the Pacific Northwest had been pretty lucky...
...Burmese streamed out of doors to pour pots of water over the ground and offer up prayers to Thi-gya-min. Early next morning, clad in bright blue, red or green skirt-like longyis and rubber bathing caps, they set out with more water for the pagodas, to wash the sacred images. Cold drinks, tea and Burman spaghetti were served at marquees at almost every street corner and gay music sounded everywhere. Pious oldsters listened to the discourse of holy men, and everywhere the Burmese splashed one another with a will. "Yee-da-paw, yee-da-paw" (we laugh...
...genuine story value, but it is not the integrated work that Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel was. In South Pacific, Rodgers' music provides only a score, not a scaffolding. The score has its very decided merits: there are the bang and the brio of I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair and I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy; there is Some Enchanted Evening, a fit consort for Oklahoma!'s beautiful morning. All in all, however, Rodgers' fine talent seemed far more individual in the days when his musical shows...