Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literary impulse, formed during his years of vagabondage, was a profound reaction to petit bourgeois life. A few years later he embraced Reaction as a political faith. His wife was an outright Nazi sympathizer, and Hamsun himself fell for the Hitler line. When Germany conquered Norway, he told his countrymen: "Norwegians! Throw away your rifles and return home. The Germans are fighting for us and all neutrals." He supported Vidkun Quisling, and in 1943 visited Hitler...
...diverse and divided politicians of France leapt to their feet and exploded into applause. Ex-Defense Minister Jules Moch, whose hatred of the Germans is twofold (he is Jewish, and lost his son in the Resistance), warmly embraced Heuillard. Robert Schuman, whose efforts to sell German rearmament to his countrymen were the target of Heuillard's passionate attack, advanced toward him, tears -in his eyes, to shake the deputy's hand...
Britain's G. M. Trevelyan, famed historian son of a famed historian father, thinks the modern reader is getting less & less able to understand good writing. Last week, in a pamphlet published by the Oxford University Press, he told his countrymen why: "Literature, more than painting and music, is a matter of references, of play made with bits of knowledge common to author and reader." The trouble is, says Trevelyan, that this common knowledge is getting scantier & scantier...
...Maybe when the Brazilians south of Rio have made their million dollars in sufficiency they will look to the needs of their very much poorer countrymen who live in those filthy shacks so scientifically camouflaged by the magnificent buildings in and around Copacabana . . . From what I could see, Brazil, north of Rio, is as appalling as India, but maybe it doesn't smell quite...
...demanded to know what was wrong. He was told that Richardson was swinging his right foot over the service line. Play was resumed, but the U.S. pair could win only five more points in the set. The Aussies won the deciding set, 6-2, then whipped their fellow countrymen, Mervyn Rose and Don Candy, for the title...