Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ceased to believe in the hitherto sacred word Fatherland. When I was 15 I ceased to believe in God. God had proved to be an ally of the murderers of Lech. For long hours I knelt in a dark, empty church. The day finally came when the cross became to me only a piece of wood...
...toughest borders to cross in all Europe is the 125-mile line between free Austria and Communist Hungary. In 1948 Hungarian Communists erected along the entire frontier a literal Iron Curtain of barbed wire in two parallel belts, each about 12 ft. high and 9 ft. deep. Between the belts they planted mines. At regular intervals they set up 30-ft. watchtowers manned by frontier police with machine guns and floodlights. Special guards with watchdogs constantly patrol the Hungarian side of the border...
...taking a rest; there is, of necessity, a kind of "professional" attitude towards relaxation, or towards going to Europe once in a lifetime, or even traveling to Mexico which provides the nearest violence, poverty, and antiquity. Professors find something to teach in another university. In a pinch, they can cross the United States, from East to West--according to that law which demands that one "Go to San Francisco," which is the liet-motiv of American dreams, like the Moscow of Chekov's Three Sisters,--while westerners can think only of the East...
Frank Moore Cross Jr., an authority on the "Dead Sea Scrolls," will be associate professor of Old Testament. Until the summer of 1957, however, he will continue as associate professor of the McCormack Theological Seminary tin Chicago...
Roman Jakobson, Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, quietly left the country on Monday morning for Moscow, where he will attend a meeting of the interim committee of the International Conference for Slavic Philology...