Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lunts had a very good thing in Stephen Vincent Benet's story of the Nativity for Cavalcade and they did better by it. Benet drew a parallel between the birthtime of Christ and World War II. Herod was Gauleiter of Egypt, and the Romans his masters. Middle-aged Alfred Lunt kept the inn of the Nativity and spoke for all adaptable World War II innkeepers...
...long sought to regain for their country some of its vanished power and glory. From the ceiling-high windows of their brownstone government building in Pest they surveyed Buda spread out in a quiet arc. They looked down the sluggish Danube, past the austere statue of their patron, Saint Stephen, and felt themselves ordained and inevitable monarchs of all they saw and all they could take...
...publish, they had the persistency and the money to keep at it for a decade and to raise Common Sense to a level of intellectual respectability. They have by now published contributions by most of the right left-people-John Dos Passos, John Chamberlain, John Dewey, Marquis Childs, Stephen Spender, et al. They have ground axes for India's freedom, racial equality, a nonpunitive peace. They have also succeeded for ten years in running an average deficit of around $700 a month...
...Acting for the estate of oil-rich Edward Stephen Harkness, oldtimers Dillon, Read & Co. offered 50,000 shares of Standard Oil of Indiana at 25⅜, happily watched it go to hundreds of investors...
...Stephen Spender's Ruins arid Visions ($2) gave proof that war and writing are by no means necessarily incompatible in a civil ized nation. Other notable volumes were The Witness Tree ($2) by Robert Frost, dean of U.S. poets, and Person, Place, and Thing ($2) by Karl Jay Shapiro...