Word: culturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"To the citizens of Rome: You have already been warned that military objectives in the vicinity of Rome are liable to be bombed by the Allied air force. When this occurs the Fascist Government . . . will pretend that we are trying to destroy those cultural monuments which are the glory not...
But Columbia is proud of the fact that, apart from this decline in numbers, Teachers College and cultural opportunities are unimpaired. The campus north of ferryboat-like University Hall echoes with Kansas and Texas accents. Like a quarter million or so predecessors, the studying teachers flock to the Grove before...
Addressing the graduating class at University of Chicago's Institute of Meteorology, Professor Parr observed indignantly that scientists have done practically nothing about the weather. "Our relations to the forces of weather and climate," said he, "are still in the most primitive cultural stage."
Nazi Germany has produced not one first-rate writer, painter or composer. Nazi Germany repudiated the works of such German artists as Heine, Liebermann and Mendelssohn. Nazi Germany bombed Rotterdam, London, Leningrad, many another treasure house of civilization. Yet fantastic Dr. Joseph Goebbels bleated last week : " The Americans destroy towns...
No modern literary figure combines Griswold's prominence, his position as a cultural master of ceremonies, and his un steady, enigmatic personal life. His second marriage was to a wealthy spinster of Charleston, S.C. He was 30. She was 13 years older, living with two spinster aunts. The women...