Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bruce, however, has been intimately connected with the problems of Europe since the end of the war. In his present position as Ambassador to West Germany, he is probably the most knowledgeable negotiator the United States could have at the coming Foreign Ministers' meeting. Though he has not been in government service all his life, he is more nearly a career diplomat than any of his potential rivals. Installing a Secretary of State who has devoted much of his life to professional government service is a valuable precedent. Bruce served in the Foreign Service for two years during the Twenties...
...live as he was meant to live. The mother gives and gives, the son takes and takes. The only thanks she gets are sulks, or at best indifference. Her heart bleeds, but she is wise enough to understand that in hurting his mother he is only trying to end his dependence on her; that the pain he inflicts on her is a measure of the fear he feels that he may fail to become a man. At every point the relationship between mother and growing boy is exactly understood and poignantly expressed. Because of her great love and understanding...
...deed-getaway car and all-is planned coldly by Agustin, a young painter for whom art is not enough. The crime fails not because his plan is faulty but because David cannot pull the trigger as he faces the easy victim.* The gang splits. Before novel's end, a murder does take place, one almost as pointless as the planned killing would have been...
...director of the factory where he was an unsatisfactory worker? We've had that ten times. Shall I tell how she, his beloved, attained high production levels, while he, her beloved, was still not up to . . .? I don't even want to finish thinking this to the end: we've had it a hundred times already...
...English tourists comes to Bruges, and Skipton sets out to fleece them for his winter wear. He finds a whore for one of the men and snob delights for the woman in the party; for both sexes he arranges a Pigalle-type "spectacle." But by summer's end Skipton has himself been swindled out of what little money remains to him: his sole consolation is that death is close enough to save him from the agonies of another winter...