Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critic and columnist, bartender and barfly last week got a startling reminder of A Night to Remember. Lest anyone miss the imminent arrival of J. Arthur Rank's movie re-creation of the sinking of the S.S. Titanic, Rank flacks flooded the mails with swizzle sticks topped by the...
Although the X section does contain a collection of erotica, which, during the long existence of the Library has grown to outstanding proportions, its major purpose lies in other directions. The Cage is mainly a haven for any literature which, in its general nature, is particularly prone to destruction. Old...
What made the Russians decide to part with such loot? Politics, probably. General elections will be held in East Germany next week, and Premier Otto Grotewohl's regime needs bolstering. At ceremonies celebrating the return of the loot, Grotewohl orated: "In saving all these priceless sculptures and paintings from...
The New Republic contracted the most visible case of split personality. Critic Conrad Brenner extolled the book for four pages, ended: "Vladimir Nabokov is an artist of the first rank, a writer in the great tradition . . . Lolita is probably the best fiction to come out of this country . . . since Faulkner...
"Why must the resources of human ingenuity and the wrath of nations be turned more and more to the preparation of arms-pernicious instruments of death and destruction-instead of improving the welfare of all classes, particularly the poorer classes? We know, it is true, that to bring about so...