Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...products of the past few months form together an epic quest of the American for his soul. The rock and roller starts off on his Twentieth century Odyssey by defining his goals of success. The vision which Billy Parsons offers of the goal rivals Dante's path through Paradise. Parsons builds on the Presley legend for his model...
About how to become an all-American...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9--An economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce deplored today the "wringing of hands" in comparing American economic growth with that of the Soviet bloc...
...Glazanov, the situation seems hopeless. Recently he wrote an American friend: "I hope that only you will recognize American people with my art. It is very important for a painter. If it is possible to print it as a book, please, write me which and how many fotografyes you need." Attached to this letter was a warning from the American Embassy: any further correspondence could mean trouble for Glazanov...
...Ghost Train, Belgrade's whole diplomatic corps is invited to travel by special train to Zagreb for Liberation Day. The uneasy diplomats are herded into "three long coaches made of painted and carved timber." The locomotive ("abandoned before the war by an American film company [and] tied together by wire") is stoked "white-hot" by "hairy men in cloth caps who looked like Dostoevsky's publishers." At the stop of Slopsy Blob ("named after the famous Independence fighter"), the roof of the ambassadors' coach carries away most of the top of the station and lays the diplomatic...