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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drama, as so many know by now, takes place in a garret above an Amsterdam spice factory, where a group of Jewish refugees live in secret, under constant threat of discovery by the Nazis. Stevens' attempts to escape his spatial limitations, through open window spots and photographic tricks, are, on the whole, successful...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: The Diary of Anne Frank | 5/6/1959 | See Source »

...husband, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, 64: "When I met him I was the most ridiculous singer of Italy, and he, a wealthy industrialist who owned 20 building-material plants, said, 'You have the most beautiful voice in the world,' and-thanks to his tenacity, his persuasion and his constant help-I could overcome all the difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 4, 1959 | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...just contain and contain, and keep this tension we take the chance everyday of someone making a mistake. If we just keep containment we are in constant danger of mistakes," the Governor said. He voiced the opinion that the United Nations was merely an instrument of this containment, and in the long run would only prolong the era of nationalistic tensions rather than allow them to be submerged in a system of world-wide federalism...

Author: By Daniel A. Pollack, | Title: Munoz Condemns Nationalist Trend | 4/29/1959 | See Source »

...Four years of English with constant training in writing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admission to Harvard College | 4/24/1959 | See Source »

...background of what must have been one of the strangest households in the world-young bodyguards filling sandbags and filing correspondence for revolution's exiled royalty. About the house in Coyoacán, six miles south of Mexico City, was the sour smell of defeat and the constant whine of grandiose self-justification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of the Waxworks | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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