Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Doctor, from the dedicated G.P. of rural areas to the surgeon of the battlefield to the impersonal practitioner of computerized medicine. They keep on striving to build a better man-even as the same men tear each other down...
...speculations about the state of the U.S. today and where it is heading. France's Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, journalist and author of the bestselling The American Challenge, voiced a note of urgency in opening the conference. "America, as the leading industrial power, is the crucial battlefield," he said. "The crisis you are living through we will have to face in the future." Some of the matters discussed...
...convinced one becomes that the elements that make for military success or failure remain constant." The early Jews, of course, had unswerving faith in their destiny as God's chosen people-but it helped no little bit that they also had leaders who knew their way around a battlefield...
...Poelzig's house to investigate Karen's death and eventually kill the murderer. Through a nasty turn in the weather, he is accompanied by two American newlyweds honeymooning in Hungary. Of course, their unexpected presence in Poelzig's fantastic Bauhaus mansion (built on the ruins of the most impressive battlefield-graveyard produced by the War) cramps his style--particularly when Poelzig takes a fancy to the young bride and decides to make her the victim in the very next congregation of a devil cult Poelzig heads...
...odds, George Orwell is the most unlikely culture hero to emerge in the '60s. The ideological passions that rent the Red '30s, strewing literary corpses and real bodies over the Marxist battlefield, leave the current generation cold. Yet this minor English novelist (Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter) is now accepted generally in England and the U.S. as a major prophet for his political journalism, for his anti-Stalinist fable Animal Farm (1945), and for the political-science-fiction shocker...