Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medicine, of education, where Indian relics of the Stone Age still lie beside the railroad tracks, and where, in spite of everything, society evolves to create more generous, kindly and decent people. "Has man wandering in this worldly wilderness ever devised a better system than ours for making the desert blossom as the rose...
...came mostly into Britain's sphere of influence after World War I, Britain wanted nothing so much as to keep them quiet. But various dialects of Arabic are the language of Egypt, the Sudan and Libya, as well as of the Asiatic shore. Furthermore, the Arabs are expert desert soldiers and might prove useful allies to the British in Libya and the Sudan, where roads are almost as scarce as railroads, and the chief highways are furrows in the sand worn by the feet of generations of camels traveling from oasis to oasis-where in fact the only cultivated...
Methods of desert warfare have altered materially since Colonel Lawrence campaigned in Arabia. Now the territory is covered with numerous airfields (indicated by red windsocks on the map). The opening phase of the war was a continual exchange of bombings between Libya and British posts in Egypt, including Alexandria. More important, perhaps, air reconnaissance makes difficult surprise attacks and raids across the desert such as those at which Lawrence was adept...
Safari (Paramount). A graduating class of Columbia University, asked to say with whom they would best like to be cast adrift on a desert island, chose blonde, ladylike Madeleine Carroll. Safari promises to reduce this dream to reality when, as Linda Stewart, Cinemactress Carroll is taken by her wealthy admirer Baron de Courland (Tullio Carminati) on a jungle expedition led by dashing Jim Logan (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). When the matter-of-fact Baron spends most of his time bagging specimens, Linda undertakes to jog him into jealousy and a proposal by flirting with Jim. The moment seems to have arrived...
...epilogue in which all ten come together in the desert has an eloquence that proves Robert Neumann, for all his irony and sometimes mannered facility, has wept by the waters of exile. His last symbol: though it is Schlessing who drives the fated bus, it is The Pale One who sees the land of Zion...