VOCABULARY World War II - druga wojna światowa intelligence services - służby wywiadu to collaborate - współpracować film director - reżyser filmowy morale-boosting - podnoszący na duchu, zwiększający morale drama - tu: dramat filmowy the collaboration was a happy one - była to owocna współpraca a classic movie of the period - filmowy klasyk tego okresu unfashionable - niemodny to reinvent oneself - odnaleźć się/odrodzić na nowo w nowej roli cabaret artist - artysta kabaretowy masterly performer of his own songs - niedościgniony wykonawca własnych piosenek to enjoy life - cieszyć się życiem fun - zabawa, uciecha, przyjemność

Lesson 10
Noel Coward

During World War II Coward worked for the intelligence services and also collaborated with the film director David Lean to create the morale-boosting propaganda drama In Which We Serve.

The collaboration was a happy one and, in 1945, the two men worked together again on what has become a classic British movie of the period - Brief Encounter.

After the war Coward's type of drama became unfashionable but he reinvented himself as a cabaret artist and a masterly performer of his own songs.

'The only way to enjoy life,' he said, 'is to work. Work is much more fun than fun.'

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