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...East Germany, he had at his disposal all that a playwright could materially desire: his own theatre, his own company, virtually unlimited state support...and yet he failed to produce the 'positive' play expected of him. This incapacity to praise the world which the Socialist camp hoped to construct has frequently been traced to an alleged reluctance with which Brecht embraced Stalinism, but there is little evidence to support this theory. It seems clear that his negativism was rooted more in psychological than political soil: his fundamental interest was not the constructive process, but disintegration...
Negotiations for the contract are expected to be completed late this week after changes in the preliminary agreement. Venezuela reportedly hopes to construct a new interior city for government business--like Brazils' new Brazilia...
...bill gets past the House it will the Cambridge City Council, where of the nine Councilors have already approval. Though a simple will ensure the sale of the land, , another problem will face Sullivan when he comes to construct...
Converts thronged to Father Miller by the hundreds and, requiring a meeting place, arranged with a builder, Tom Ford, to construct a tabernacle for them on condition that it revert to Ford after the end of the world, scheduled for April 25. The appointed day passed and, after a week or two during which they starved, surrounded by grotesque pictures of monsters from the Book of Revelation, the frenzied worshippers staggered out. Miller, somewhat abashed by the failure of his prediction, reviewed his calculations and discovered that he had erred by several thousand years. Meanwhile, Ford had laid claim...
...missiles scattered across Europe, say finite-deterrent backers, will convince a potential enemy that even a successful surprise assault promises terrible and intolerable retaliation. Here the relationship is between the number of U.S. missiles and the number of important Communist targets. Somewhere between the two extremes, the U.S. must construct its defenses...