Word: barriere
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...neutralizer" of the religious meaning of sex. In other literature of saviour figures and spiritual heroes, the protagonist is either "a champion of sexual renewal or a warrior against the 'demonic' sexual force." Jesus, even though he condemned sexual transgression, saw sex in itself neither as a barrier in the way of salvation nor as a condition of spiritual blessedness. He accepted it as a fact of life-not as something subject to either divine or demonic power...
...naughty joke, he pads episodes with excursions into screwball farce. Playwright Jean Anouilh's scenario seldom seems funny, perhaps because the laughs are lost in the dubbed English version. Frequent close-ups make accurate lip synchronization impossible, and the flat, disembodied voices set up a sound barrier. It is a bit like watching dancers whirl through a Viennese waltz while the band plays Yankee Doodle...
...that ended the Soviet occupation-and because Austria already belongs to a rival trade bloc, the European Free Trade Association. Austria depends on the Common Market for 50% of its trade (v. 18% with EFTA), and feels that its prosperity is endangered by the Market's common tariff barrier. Says Austrian National Bank President Reinhard Kamitz, a prime architect of Austria's economic revival: "As long as we do not try for full membership, we will not be violating our neutrality agreement...
...image of what I had said unrecognizable. Quite apart from the distress that I share in the failure to recognize the moral and psychological impact of this needless local action, I had wished to emphasize the unfortunate strategic consequence. This is that by such use the tacitly accepted barrier against one more type of warfare had been removed. Practically all nations can produce or procure a great variety of chemical and biological warfare agents ranging from those which produce incapacitation through those that maim to those that kill. By opening up one end of this spectrum we have invited escalation...
...frequent, and the duke could call on the Queen - always alone. When Elizabeth was a child, the duke was her favorite uncle, and such he remains to both the Queen and her sister, Princess Margaret. But for the duchess nothing changed. As before, she saw herself "confronted with a barrier of turned backs, rigid and immovable...