Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what happened behind the light, and Mrs. Frank cried: 'The children! My God! My God!' " In the hell of Belsen, Anne and Margot Frank lasted scarcely five months. They both became ill. Margot was in a coma for several days and was found, fallen from her bunk, dead. Anne was so sick that no one told her of Margot's fate. Says a fellow prisoner who watched: "Several days later she died peacefully, in the certitude that death was not a calamity...
...music critics and music lovers." His Mozart analysis was hailed by word-bound, cliche-tied British critics as "a most important departure." Keller is now working on an analysis of Beethoven's String Quartet, Opus 95. Says he: "Most of what passes for musical criticism today is sheer bunk; I think functional analysis will bring about the twilight of the twaddle." He is not disturbed by the thought that it might also spoil the market for the written criticism with which he still partly supports himself. "The critic's job," says Critic Keller, "is to make himself unnecessary...
...Pure Bunk." The most serious worry for 1958 is the Government's continuing tight-money campaign in the face of an economic slide, however slight. Speaking before the American Finance Conference in Washington last week, White House Economic Advisor Gabriel Hauge assured businessmen that the Administration is ready to cushion any downturn with "flexible policies, adapted to changing conditions." It was flatly untrue, said Hauge, that the Government was out to cause a "little recession," to keep the economy healthy. "I want to label that for what it is-pure bunk. Nor does this Administration believe that a little...
...resident Americans. But each year some 400,000 U.S. tourists, soldiers and businessmen flock to Paris, and a sizable minority of them find their way to the American Church. Their needs are often unusual: a tired, broke G.I. awakens Pastor Williams at 3 a.m., asks for and gets a bunk for the night; an Air Force captain learns that his nephew has been killed in a street accident, and Dr. Williams opens the church at midnight to pray with him; a desolate young man phones for help from a Montmartre bar. and the pastor sends Alcoholics Anonymous...
TIME chose to use an old wives' slant in reporting this story: the bad father who once committed murder passes an inherent urge to kill on to his son. Bunk! How outdated! What juicy food for the hungry minds who love to believe such nonsense...