Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only Toscanini was at fault; the recording was nowhere near the excellence of something like "La Mer" by Koussevitsky, also on this month's release. The base is shallow and distorted, and the highs are brittle and sharp-all of which is exceedingly destructive to Beethoven...
...blockade, which stretches to Iceland. They were there to prevent Germany from getting seaborne supplies from northern Russia. Perhaps also they would interfere with future shipments of Swedish and Norwegian iron ore to Germany through Norway's coastal waters, and prevent German submarines from using Murmansk as a base, or Russian submarines from going to help the Germans. Perhaps-though this was not yet demonstrable-they were the advance guard for Allied supplies or even an Allied expeditionary force for beleaguered Finland. The Papal daily Osservatore Romano in Vatican City credited this view, at least so far as supplies...
English poets have seldom left England -the Christian world's poetical home base-except on scholarly vacations or for their health or reputation's sake. Yet two able-bodied English poets are now more or less permanently quartered as wage earners in the U. S. Louis MacNeice is teaching at Cornell, Wystan Hugh Auden at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. And Auden, probably the most spectacular English poet alive-and one who in 1937 received, at his King's hands, the King's Gold Medal for distinguished literary services...
...week by a sudden Turkish gesture. Under the emergency powers voted to the Government by Parliament last month, Turkey seized the Krupp shipyards on the Golden Horn and dismissed 20 German technicians employed there outfitting two new Turkish submarines, together with 60 other Germans working at the Gremlik naval base, in an explosives factory at Kirikkale, and in the Zonguldak coal field. Other Germans made haste to pull up stakes, for now the handwriting on Turkey's wall was clear. Authoritative sources explained that the technicians' dismissal was necessitated by discovery of a sabotage plot. But one Turkish...
Last month an anonymous British cruiser fired across the bows of the Japanese liner Asama Maru, only 35 miles off Japan's naval base of Yokosuka. From the Asama Maru a British boarding party took 21 Germans, judged to be of military age and ability, returning from U. S. employment via Japan and Siberia to Germany (TIME, Jan. 29). These the British interned at Hong Kong. Japan fumed. Great Britain cited her rights under a convention of 1909 (never ratified) which says that persons liable to military service for an enemy may be removed by a belligerent from neutral...