Word: spoke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through it all, Matos spoke with the helpless clarity of a sane man trapped in a lunatic asylum. "I have always fought Communists," he said, "and I had proof that there are Communists in the army's Cultural [indoctrination] Corps. There has been no treason, no desertion nor anything shameful in my conduct." Matos got 20 years in prison-a verdict that Castro called "most generous. I am happy because I feel that revolutionary tribunals should be generous whenever possible...
...great purposes of this Administration," wrote the President just before taking off on his global tour, "is to advance the rule of law in the world." Last week at India's Delhi University, he spoke to the "great purpose." Excerpts...
...Culture. It was also hinted that when the hit musical West Side Story is adapted for Soviet consumption, Bernstein's music for the show will be inaudible. Meanwhile, top Russian Composer Tikhon Khrennikov, who toured the U.S. last month (TIME, Nov. 23) with four other leading Soviet musicians, spoke out on his impressions of popular capitalist music. Most jazz musicians, including Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, he adjudged "vulgar, unnatural and in anything but good taste." But he had a kind word for Clarinet Virtuoso Benny Goodman: kho-lodny (real cool...
...extraordinary talent for observation, an ear and an eye for the small, significant detail that transforms mimicry into understanding. So the coarse, curbside intonations of The Bronx were erased with intuitive skill at the flare of a footlight and the rise of a curtain. Seesaw's Gittel spoke with an inflection that convinced thousands of theatergoers that the actress must be Jewish ("I didn't even know what a Jew was until I was grown up," says Anne Bancroft). As Annie Sullivan, Actress Bancroft erases her Italian heritage so completely that, after seeing Miracle, Novelist Edwin (The Last...
...Young Democrats have joined Sen. Stephen M. Young of Ohio in a backblast at the American Legion for its criticism of Young because he spoke at a Communist-front organization...