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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Swedish Academy bestowed the Nobel Prize for Literature on André Gide, dean of French letters (The Counterfeiters; If It Die). In his 78 years Gide has, at various times, defended Communism, homosexuality, and "pure" Christianity divested of Pauline glosses. Most of all he has defended individualism...
...Medina, I asked the sad, round-faced proprietor behind the marble counter how afraid he was. His stubbly chin trembled and the watery blue eyes seemed ready to gush tears as he said, 'Of course I'm afraid. How many Italians have to die? You Americans killed some. The Germans killed others. Now it seems we're going to kill each other. We've got poverty. We've got hunger. Must we have war, too? Is God so angry with...
...only one year in jail. "Two years," he told a reporter, "is the maximum punishment for such a thing. I know because I looked it up in our laws twelve years ago, before I started all this. But sir, I'm sure about one thing: if I die in jail they will just forget all about it. My paintings will become original Vermeers once more. I produced them not for money but for art's sake." The money was nothing to sneeze at, either. Though he declared himself bankrupt two years ago, Van Meegeren had made...
...results may be "utterly devastating." The body's smallest blood vessels are barely wide enough to let a single red cell squeeze through. When red cells clump, they plug these bottlenecks and deprive tissues of food and oxygen. The tissue cells die. When sludged blood kills important tissues, the patient dies...
...crippled daughter (Lilli Palmer) of a wealthy old baron (Ernest Thesiger). She falls in love; he doesn't. She confesses her passion; he gallantly flees in a panic. Her doctor"(Sir Cedric Hardwicke) warns the soldier that if the girl's hope of winning him dies, she will die...