Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that have appeared in the Advocate since the war. "What a Man Has to Do," by Harold Fleming, is a restrained tale of violence and race hatred that has no direct message. Prejudice and hate press harder and harder on Berry, the Negro Army sergeant, until he "flies apart like the works of an over wound clock." This is a real short story, so seldom seen hitherto around here, with real characters in real situations...
Overcoat & Broth. In the little Alsatian village of Günsbach, where he grew up, Albert Schweitzer's schoolmates looked on him as "a sprig of the gentry" because he was the parson's son. To be set apart from the other boys was an agony to him; he suffered many a whipping rather than wear an overcoat, the badge of a "gentleman." Once, after he had won a wrestling match, his opponent said: "Yes, if I got broth to eat twice a week as you do, I should be as strong as you are." From then...
...nothing whatsoever to do with 'Art'. But," he adds quietly, "it's an art for all that." Visitors to Evans' retrospective exhibition at Chicago's Art Institute last week were sure to see his point. Evans' own undeniably artful photographs seemed worlds apart from the museum's paintings. They were almost head-on views of junkyards, stray people, tenements, hill farms and city streets, done with an antiseptic brilliance of black, white and grey. Chill as glass, they had no more charm than a newsreel, but the quiet clarity of each print gave...
...good guess would be that should Yale triumph in today's game, this relatively unimpressive New England town will break apart before the sun sets in the west...
...both grain and money. The problem demanded speed and keen insight; the Council treated it in a sluggish and obtuse fashion. Last year's Council committee raised $25,000 for European relief in two quick door-to-door drives. As of today, the two groups are exactly $25,000 apart...