Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 1889 ... a famous poet .,. recited How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix into a toy designed to preserve the spoken word upon a wax-covered cylinder. All went well until the poet came to the words, "Speed! echoed the . . ." Then he hesitated, and said: "I forget it." Upon being prompted, however, he went on: "Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest." Again the poet paused, and presently said: "I am exceedingly sorry that I cannot remember my own verses, but one thing I shall remember all my life is the astonishing sensation produced upon...
Thus till near Night they flock; and in a Word...
Masterpiece is hardly a strong enough word to describe this French import. Other Gallie efforts have been praised highly in the last decade, but none of them can possibly match the broad scope and multiple perfections of "Les Enfants," a product of the German Occupation which contains, among other things, a notable expression of the tragedy of spiritual frustration and isolation...
...will soon return to Italy to make a movie for Britain's Sir Alexander Korda -based on Luigi Pirandello's difficult Henry IV. Says Welles: "So much first-rate talent is going in the direction of the literal. I don't even like the word 'documentary.' You can't go on proving that a rusty faucet is rusty and a dirty alley is dirty. They are using the camera as a recording instrument. I want to use it as an instrument of poetry...
...kept me from believing in the devil was that I wasn't quite sure of hating him." Two years later he confided to his Journals: "When I say: the Evil One, I know what that expression designates just as clearly as I know what is designated by the word God. I draw his outline by the deficiency of each virtue ... he is more intelligent than I, everything he thought up to hurl me toward evil was infinitely more precious, more specious, more convincing, more beautiful, more clever than any argument I could have brought up to persevere in honor...