Word: afresh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blows were traded in Naples' steep and narrow alleys, but not this time over politics. The issue was more intimate. In Italy, as much as anywhere else, war and military occupation had played hob with marriages; but men & women who wanted to shed their mates and start afresh with new ones were out of luck. By virtue of the 1929 Lateran Treaty, the state followed the law of the church, which in rare cases grants annulments (30 out of 75 requests from all over the world in 1944-45)-but never divorce...
...into a role as well tailored as her Mainbocher gown. As Amanda Prynne, a remarried divorcee on her honeymoon, she runs into her former husband, in a peculiarly identical circumstance, and complication set in. By the time the scene has changed from Southern France to Paris, they have started "afresh as two quite different people," leaving their respective spouses to the devil and fortunes of roulette. The pugilistie love affair that follows involves much description, mainly of a ringside nature; but consistent with the classic tenets of comedy, all ends happily...
...residential colleges for adults. There men & women in their late twenties leave their jobs for three or five months, to study the humanities and live a community life. Says Sir Richard: "[Only in this way can everyone] repair the omissions and fill the gaps of early education, think afresh about the problems of politics, morals, religion [and] keep abreast of the current. . . . Human beings, like motorcars, need reconditioning...
...home Catherine had hoped to find strength to start life afresh. Instead, she found a bleak world living on a dry fodder of deathly recollections - little Cousin Bessie (died, aged eight, of a sur feit of ripe peaches); Heir Jack Lewis (broke his neck horseback riding) ; Confederate Soldier Joe (one leg amputated, the other gangrenous). The Negro servants were not much better; old Maria, whose favorite son was serving a life sentence for murder, simply believed that "if people only had the moral courage to quit putting food into their stomachs the Lord would solve all problems by taking them...
...much clearer television image is almost a certainty. To get these war-born improvements into commercial television, CBS proposes that the radio industry write off the $20,000,000 it has already-spent, that owners of the 7,000 U.S. television receivers scrap them, and that television start afresh with the wartime improvements. CBS thinks such a write-off should be considered now before any more money is spent on prewar television...