Word: descendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that is being shed in Algeria, and though it is frequently described as a straight-out colonial issue, the Algerian rebellion is, in fact, a civil war between Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems and 1,000,000 Europeans, some of whom are not mere immigrant settlers but descend from families that have lived in North Africa for a century...
Also, Thurber needs them in The Last Flower to play off against the rabbits--now normal in size, but fierce, not meek. Note the sequence: war ends; the dogs, symbols of normalcy, abandon man; fierce rabbits descend; with time, natural conditions resume; children chase away the rabbits; the dogs return to man. Nature at the start was inverted both by war and the denial of sex. The rabbits can be viewed as the scourge of the gods (or of nature) after war, and one might add that the "enormous rabbit" itself could be America's fear of warfare...
...addition, one side is devoted to works for men's voices, and these, because of either the acoustics of Busch-Reisinger or the chorus' composition, have a propensity to descend into the cellar, producing a sort of grovelling and definitely un-vocal tone...
Within minutes of the opening, most of the 160,000 first-day visitors tried to descend on the U.S. and Russian pavilions. (In the crush, a Belgian guard at the U.S. pavilion was pushed through a plate-glass window, hospitalized.) Both pavilions got mixed notices. There was almost universal agreement that in architectural beauty Edward Stone's circular U.S. pavilion of steel and gold aluminum (TIME, March 31) surpassed Russia's rectangle of frosted glass and steel, though the Soviet building was an improvement on Russia's usual grim monoliths. Those who think that fairs should...
Chuck and George decide to take it on the lam from lamaland. On a brilliantly starlit night, the technicians descend by donkeyback to the foot of the high Himalayas. "Wonder if the computer's finished its run," muses George. "It was due about now." Both men gaze upward and continue to do so, for "overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going...