Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little attention to the ledger that in 1940 an economist, wading through Hearst's 94 separate corporations, discovered outstanding debts of $126 million. What Hearst was after was possessions, power and journalistic influence. His successors, a 13-man board of trustees headed by hard-eyed Richard E. Berlin, 65, a onetime Hearst ad salesman, prefer, where possible, to take a profit and let the influence...
Again this year, confronted by whopping Democratic majorities in Congress, President Eisenhower made the deliberate, determined decision to fight down the line for a balanced budget (TIME, Jan. 5 et seq.). Most pundits gave the President hardly a chance to make the decision stick-but he did. During the Berlin crisis, while Secretary of State John Foster Dulles lay dying, it was Dwight Eisenhower who laid down the strong, plain line in a television address to the nation: "We have no intention of forgetting our rights or of deserting a free people. Free men have, before this, died...
...example. All over the city, for the Kirchentag's five days, Catholics and Protestants explored areas of common religious interest in a tone that was far different from the bitter polemics of past centuries. Germany's top Protestant leaders were on hand, including Bishops Otto Dibelius of Berlin and Hanns Lilje of Hannover. Each day of the Kirchentag began with Communion in 16 churches, went on to Bible classes and lectures in ten great halls...
Myra & Resignation. By comparison, Victors and Vanquished sounds more like romantic imagination than on-the-spot recollection from Author Stuart's shadowed war years. His Myra emerges first in peacetime Berlin, where Luke Cassidy, the novel's hero, is lecturing on English literature. He falls ill, and Nurse Myra ministers to him so angelically that later, after war has broken out, Cassidy feels he must see her again. He skips neutral Ireland to resume his post at Berlin University. Myra shows neither surprise nor joy when Cassidy returns from Ireland to announce his love and troubled decision...
Much of this discursive novel is evidently autobiographical. Examples: 1) Like his hero. Author Stuart left Ireland in 1940 and spent most of the war years as a lecturer in Berlin; 2) Stuart was once highly praised by W. B. Yeats, once married to the adopted daughter of Maude Gonne, the Egeria of Yeats's nationalist literary salon; his Cassidy has an Irish wife and admits once knowing Yeats "quite well." At one point in the story Cassidy finds a cache of Irish whisky; Author Stuart's style resembles it-warming in small doses only, smoky and unpredictable...