Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This was the beginning of the descent into the abyss," said the Frankfurter Nene Presse in a special issue commemorating September1, 1939. "We and not Hitler alone-that is the nagging part of our memories." declared the Deutsche Zeitung. "Before history we are responsible, too, because Hitler came to power by the parliamentary route and received overwhelming majorities in all the plebiscites, was met everywhere with frenetic cheers." Wrote the weekly Die Zeit: "We want to say it clearly: Germany has sinned against Poland...
...that "serious consequences" would follow if the U.N. sent observers to Laos, and held secret conferences in Peking with North Viet Nam Boss Ho Chi Minh. Moscow's Pravda blamed all the trouble on the U.S., and said that the Laotian government is pushing the country to "the abyss of civil war" by a policy of "terror and savage reprisals against the patriotic forces...
...largest Olmec ceramics yet found, they had been apparently smuggled out of Mexico and later bought by Los Angeles' Oscar Mayer, a freewheeling dealer in antiquities. Mayer insured the pieces for $75,000; historically they are priceless-two splendid clues in a search back through the dark abyss of time. The sculptures have already caused great excitement in Paris, where Andre Malraux among others identified them as definitely "Olmequisant." Next week they will move on to Berlin's Akademie der Künste, and in December to London's Tate Gallery-a busy schedule for such deliberate...
...Editor Scott Newhall says loftily: "The column is aimed at the American wife who is approaching a more mature age, and affords her a chance to restore some of the excitement she had in her younger years. Count Marco is writing around the brink of a great big Freudian abyss." Where Editor Newhall may be going wrong in his circulation drive is in mistaking a sewer for an abyss...
Atkins also pointed out that Schiller was a "modern" poet since he knew the abyss between the real and the ideal could not be bridged. Schiller felt all art was merely a representation of idealism and should not be confused with real history. Action alone, not moral sentiment, determined drama...