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...Communists, but in reprisal to Communist brutality, Moslem and Christian youths burned more than 200 Chinese homes. As a result of the terror, usually bustling Solo, Boyolali and Klaten are anemic ghost towns. On the highway from Djokjakarta to Solo, normally clogged with traffic, only an occasional bullock cart lumbers by, while convoys of steel-helmeted Dipo-negoro division units from Sumatra and colorful Kommando Para Raiders from Djakarta in bright vermilion berets race past the empty paddies in armored cars and trucks. In Solo, Moslem student groups in khaki shirts and peaked caps help the army patrol the streets...
Yale, which could upset the Tiger's cart at Princeton Saturday, had to knock down Penn's fourth-quarter try for a two-point conversion to hold onto its 21-19 lead...
...except for Marvin's gags, the movie is pretty dull. The Nazi overtones are crushing. There no surprises. The most exciting moment comes near the end when the doctor's coffin is being wheeled away. It almost topples off the cart...
...could call by such a violent name as acting. As a rule, all you would see would be a couple of people, one of them standing still, the other catching flies." And Critic Ernest Newman said of the typical soprano: "She looks like an ox; she moves like a cart horse; she stands like a haystack...
...horse-drawn Russian army cart creaked to a halt before the cement cellblock at Auschwitz. Gathering their tattered bundles, a dozen silent men crawled into the wagon, huddled together against the cold, and jolted through the gate into the snowy darkness. Among them was Primo Levi, a young Italian Jew who had been interned for two years at Auschwitz and the nearby slave-labor camp of Buna-Monowitz. In an earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial...