Word: yes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seniors in high school, my answer is definitely yes. ... As for the junior high deal-God forgive you, Oregon...
...Yes, My Lieutenant,' b Denis Fodor, is a humorous tale. It mixes the tensions og guerrilla fighting in the mountains of Greece with the comedy that is in the pointlessness and incongruity of war. The Government's peasant soldiers are dupes not because they are going to be killed, but because their officers intend to bring them back safely without having fought a battle, and the war turns out to be a great practical joke, on which the Americans who are giving the Greeks their weapons are also victims. Fodor writes so well and develops his plot with such quiet...
First, shorter, and better of the two, Tennessee Williams' "Lord Byron's Love Letter," is an early and preparatory piece by the current here of Broadway. The play is little more than a curious scene in the lives of two curious female inhabitants of--yes, you guessed it--New Orleans...
When civilizations are flourishing, historians have noted, religion is generally at a low ebb; when civilizations disintegrate, religion thrives. Does this mean that religion is a fatal parasite on civilization? Yes, suggested 18th Century Historian Edward Gibbon.* No, says Historian Arnold J. Toynbee: on the contrary, civilizations are merely steppingstones in the progress of religion...
...slim, pretty, and not yet 20. She stood shyly in the living room of a house in Paris' Rue du Bois. Bear-like Composer Claude Debussy ambled in, sat down at a piano with his back to her. "You are Mlle. Teyte?" "Yes, sir." "You are Mlle. Teyte-of the Opéra-Comique?" "Yes, sir." "Eh bien, we will start here." Before they had run through the first act of his one & only opera Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy hustled out to shout to his wife, "Here is a Mèlisande...