Word: caveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smuggler-shepherd wandered into a cave, heard the crash of broken pottery, and found at his feet a piece of rotting leather. The discovery soon brought wealth to his people and enlightenment to Biblical scholars...
...remember her telling me about her father, whom she never saw. He was in the Resistance during the German occupation. An informer led the Nazis to the cave where he was contacting the British on the wireless. They executed him on the spot. My friend became a fervent Papandreous supporter in the late fifties, when she learned that the informer had emerged a candidate for Parliament on the Conservative ticket. He had never been brought to trial: in the name of anti-Communism, most Nazi collaborators escaped punishment in post-war Greece. In fact, Kollias, the head of the present...
Thus inspired to imagine guerrillas huddled in a candlelit cave pondering the pages of TIME, we got to reflecting on the effects of stories in the magazine, and decided to pass on a few cases in point. ¶Two months ago, Science reported on findings that a major Brazilian river, the Rio Negro, had all the characteristics of a perfect insecticide because, during flooding, it sapped chemicals from neighboring vegetation. Brazil's Minister of Interior said his office had not known of the phenomenon; he encouraged wide publication of the TIME story in the Brazilian press...
Widely celebrated in Greece, The Fear has not traveled well. Veteran viewers of French and Italian peasant dramas need not be reminded that the pastoral scene contains as much violence as the city. Writer-Director Costas Manoussakis includes several countryside shots as primitive and beautiful as a cave painting, but most of the time his grossly photographed story seems less written than plowed; his actors are rarely given more to do than grunt and stare emptily at the fallow land. In this case, its dramatic surface has barely been scratched...
...leave. At 4 a.m., before the horrified host, the guests loosen their jackets, gowns and coiffures and abruptly bivouac on the floor. The next morning they discover that somehow they cannot leave the room. Days go by. Their amusement becomes annoyance, then terror. Like miners entombed in a cave-in, they first cry out, then slowly sink into apathy. An old man dies; a young couple commit suicide. Occasionally someone screams to break the clamorous silence...