Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Bengal government had outlawed the Communists, but it could not outmaneuver them. "At a Bose rally I attended," reported TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar last week, "no party emblems were displayed and no one as much as whispered the word Communist. But the tenor of the meeting was clear. It was dominated by a huge, crude painting ridiculing Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It showed him wearing a jeweled crown and a uniform with exaggerated epaulets. Under the portrait was scrawled: 'Down with British imperialism...
...London, Mrs. Elsie Bambridge, fiftyish, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, clamped down on publication of her father's biography, which she herself had ordered written. The author, the Earl of Birkenhead, who had put in three years on the 160,000-word manuscript, said: "We had disagreed" on certain conclusions drawn from facts, "but I did not know she planned to ban it entirely." Said she: "It's my own affair and I do not wish to answer questions about...
...cast did its best to put them at ease. That technical word aria, it was explained, is "nothing to be afraid of-it simply means 'song' in Italian." Ensemble -"that's when everybody sings together." By the time the audience had been let in on a few secrets of stage lighting, greasepaint, and how to put up the scenery, it was beginning to relax...
This mild Shavian spoof (recorded 21 years ago when Shaw was only 71) was broadcast in Manhattan over WNEW's A Treasury of the Spoken Word (Wed. 9 p.m.). Sponsored by the New York Public Library and produced by WNEW's Jack Grogan, who calls it a "literary disk-jockey show," the Spoken Word has brought its listeners the voices of such diverse personalities as Gandhi, Coolidge, Teddy Roosevelt, Cardinal Spellman, Bing Crosby (who gave a reading of The Star-Spangled Banner...
Three 'thoughts' would have been 'adequate,' as the critical praise word then was. There would have been nothing to complain of if it had been left at three. The fourth made the intolerable touch of poetry. With the fourth, the fun began." Few others but Frost would have seen and described the quality of true poetry as "intolerable" and "fun" at the same time...