Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Price of Civilization. Spring has come early and generously to Berlin this year; the sweet-scented lindens touch fragrant fingers to form graceful arches. But Berlin's people breathe the dust of ruins-ruins that have a kind of awful majesty. There is the burned, bombed hulk of the Reichstag with the crows napping foolishly around the beheaded statues on the roof, and the icy stench of a tomb breathing over its bricked-up entrances. A few blocks away along the Wilhelmstrasse, the granite walls of the battered Reichs-chancellery are plastered with neat, wheedling Communist posters: "Mothers...
Facing this friendly and unfriendly world, the American sensed his country's power. The evidence was not only reflected from abroad; it was all around him. He saw it in new highways and new bridges; in factories, schools and hospitals springing up everywhere; in the dust-streaked tractors clanking through the spring plowing. He read of it in the plans for a 6-billion-electron-volt atom-smasher at the University of California (see SCIENCE). He heard it in the farmer's talk of a bumper wheat crop-the fifth bumper crop in a miraculous...
Twenty assorted Crimson and M.I.T. players swarmed all over the Business School Field yesterday, and when the dust had cleared Eddie Davis' Jayvee lacrosse squad had engineered...
Next week Hogarth House will publish (at $2.95) The Sexual Conduct of Men and Women, by Norman Lockridge (author of Bachelors' Quarters and editor of The Golden Treasury of the World's Wit and Wisdom). Says a dust-jacket blurb: "We did not plan to publish the contents of this book for some time to come . . . [but] excitement caused by the recent appearance of the Kinsey Report has suddenly brought most of these doubtful factors into a maturity of public interest. . ." Sample spicy headings in Lockridge's work: "What a Man Expects of a Mistress," "Good Women...
...shot mostly in Germany, is really two movies-one in the background, the other in the foreground. The background is an album of postwar Germany: a series of malignantly beautiful photographs of rubbled cities, taken with a depth of focus that clarifies the fear in every handful of dust. Unfortunately, the view of this film is frequently obstructed by the one in front of it, which has a certain frightful clarity of its own. It concerns an American (Robert Ryan), a Briton, a Frenchman and a Russian who unite to rescue a famous advocate of Peace (Paul Lukas) from...