Word: abruptly
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Sudden Fall. The daughter of a Viennese leather-goods manufacturer, Margherita Wallmann danced as soon as she could stand. At 15 she was a soloist at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. But her career as a dancer came to an abrupt end in 1934. During a rehearsal at the Vienna State Opera House, a trap door opened suddenly, and Margherita plunged, she says, "like Eurydice into the underworld." She fell 14 feet onto an iron framework, breaking...
Then, in a literary disappearance as abrupt and unexplained as Ambrose Bierce's, Shaw vanished. He was replaced by someone else named Irwin Shaw, who produced the swollen, solemn war novel The Young Lions. The craftsman's joy in a job done as well as a man could do it was missing; the book's two elaborate plots alternated like the footfalls of a tired man clumping upstairs...
...nothing. Thus the novel assembles a bitterly accurate rogues' gallery of German types, all so cheerily conniving to forget how they once so cheerily connived with the Nazis. Yet Böll lacks the slashing, ultimately healing fury of Günter Grass. The Clown comes to an abrupt end when the hero, stripped of hope, puts on his whiteface makeup and goes out to beg among the costumed crowds of the Rhineland's Fasching revels...
...HCUA's abrupt about-face ruling apparently resulted from a wee-hours session between H. Reed Ellis '65, Chairman of the HCUA, and William P. Saum '65, Elections Chairman, who laid down the original edict...
Guns & Burs. Was it on the level? Barrientos offered no convincing evidence of imminent revolution. But there could be no question about the loyalties of the national police. Paz Estenssoro created the police as his private political militia and as a counterweight to the military. Only Paz's abrupt departure prevented a bitter showdown between the police and the regular army; ever since, Paz's boys in green have ached to avenge him. This month when the army turned up two caches of machine guns, rifles and ammunition buried under police barracks in La Paz, Barrientos decided...