Word: worked
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Killer." Last week Robbins Landon completed a Haydn Society coup he was sure would become a major musical event: the recording of Haydn's last opera, Orfeo ed Euridice, a four-act work that has never been staged...
...Although the union, dominated by Communist Harry Bridges, denounced the employee explanation plan as a "company union" scheme, the employees like it. Not since 1947 has Hawaiian Pineapple been struck by Harry Bridges' union. Said Miyazaki in San Francisco last week: "It's a good company to work...
Seven Days to Noon (London Films). A top British atomic scientist, in acute moral distress over his work, sends an ultimatum to No. 10 Downing Street: unless the government publicly renounces the manufacture of atomic bombs within seven days, he will set one off in the heart of midday London. The discovery that Professor Willingdon (Barry Jones) is indeed missing from his government laboratory- along with a potent U.K. 12 that could fit into his small satchel-touches off a major crisis in London and a major moviemaking feat by Britain's young (37) producing-directing twins...
Beaded Sweat. His work was a triumph of the will. At his best, he wrote with an audacious, staccato directness which permanently altered the rhythm and content of American fiction. The core of that achievement is the self-explanatory novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, a Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and a handful of poems and stories, notably The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Written when Crane was 22, The Red Badge was a brilliantly intuitive study of war and the emotions of men in combat...
Lucien has no sooner plunged into politics than he has "a sensation of swimming in mud." His father had forewarned him: "You only direct the dirty work, you never do it yourself. The principle is this: every government, even that of the United States, lies always and about everything; when it can't lie on the main issue, it lies about the details. There are good lies and bad. Good ones are those that the [middle class] believes; excellent ones catch some of the carriage public; execrable ones are those nobody believes, and that only the most shameless ministries...