Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spell of some unspeakable urge, it will be obvious to the last row, third balcony, that the lady is pregnant. But what is this dark drive that possesses her? With somnambulistic stare she crosses to the kitchen counter. She reaches for a knife-and then for the bread and peanut butter. She raises the sandwich to her mouth, hesitates. A gleam of madness flickers in her eye. She takes out an onion...
Discussions. Even inside Russia, the universities, if not in a revolutionary mood, were in a questioning frame of mind. Much of the debate gathered around a bestselling novel. Vladimir Dudintsev's Not By Bread Alone, the story of a brilliant young inventor who is victimized by a group of corrupt bureaucrats (standard villains of Soviet fiction) and is sent to a prison camp. Since its publication last August, Not By Bread Alone has been eagerly seized upon by millions of young Russians who find, beneath the technical jargon which covers many of its pages, a hidden symbolism...
...recent gathering of Moscow University students, called to discuss the meaning of Not By Bread Alone, some who had evidently learned to think shouted: "Tell us about Hungary and Poland!" Replied the lecturer: "It's irrelevant!" In the ensuing bedlam the Soviet authorities felt they had solved the problem by turning off the lights...
...England's Kathleen Raine has learned to like the unbuttered bread which is the traditional reward of a poet's poet. Daughter of an English schoolmaster, and a teacher herself from necessity, she could give useful lessons to all but a handful of poets now writing. Yet sales of her poetry, in the U.S. (if not in Britain), are slender, and it is not hard to see why. Few readers want to be so sharply reminded of the fact that life on earth is transient, and fewer still can distill comfort from the belief that birth...
...peasantry into the proletariat, working the "dark Satanic mills," and Karl Marx predicted that eventually the middle class would be forced into the faceless proletariat, too. During the '305 it seemed to some that Marx had been right, and the myth of robber barons engaged in snatching bread from the mouths of the poor was in the back of many a muddled head. Now, it seems, there is a new and very different thing to worry about. The capitalist robber baron has turned out to be a love-starved aunt cramming cake into eager little mouths. The middle class...