Word: disillusioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hitler has begun to shout in beer gardens. The book has many moments of Rabelaisian vulgarity, including a hilarious bordello scene, but they seem deliberately injected for shock value. As for the symbolism and the irony (though Remarque says no symbolism was intended), they could scarcely be more obvious-the...
Far more than in the U.S., the cries of Hungary's agony reverberated through Europe. They even penetrated the closed world of Communism. Across Europe, veteran comrades resigned in disillusion; party leaders struggled with protests and outright rebellions.
Change in Emphasis. In the last three months testy, old (80) Konrad Adenauer has been making a reappraisal-one that might be called "agonizing"-of U.S. foreign policy. Adenauer's disillusion with the U.S. began when he learned (through press reports) that Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint...
The most enduring was the late Aline Bernstein, a theatrical designer with a son Wolfe's age, who became Esther Jack in The Web and the Rock. The present volume contains none of Wolfe's personal letters to her, since Aline Bernstein had intended to edit them herself...
Part of the inquiétude he wrote about was disillusion with the church. But ten years later Daniel-Rops had found in Catholicism "a conception of the world . . . a system of thinking . . . a basis for civilization." The church-centered histories, biographies and novels that have poured from him since...