Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...End of the Line
Your Aug. 22 article on José Ortega y Gasset's description of the evolution of art was read with interest. [But] I am afraid you adopt too much of a defeatist attitude in your last sentence: "It looked as if modern art must be the end of the line...
...Robert Ryan plays a courageous pug at the brutal end of a small-time fight career (TIME, April...
Orson-Welles, no mean prestidigitator in his own right, relishes every minute of Cagliostro's swashbuckling career. Rolling his eyes like an end man in an oldtime minstrel show, he charms crippled aristocrats right off their crutches, ogles a beautiful blonde into marriage against her will, beetles and bluffs his way into the court of King Louis XV, then meets his death in a prancing duel atop a tower high above Paris, with Marie Antoinette at his side...
When the successful revolt against Ronca came, it was thanks to the alliance of Don Ricardo's liberals and the Communists. But Don Ricardo wondered what the Communists would do if they got the cabinet posts they demanded, especially the police ministry. In the end, with troubled Carlos at his side, he drove in the darkness to make a deal with what was left of the old Ronquistas, the dictator's former followers...