Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans to spend a week-end in Stratford, it is advisable to make arrangements in advance. While (shudder) New Haven and Bridgeport are not exactly resort towns, there are numerous hotels and motels in both places. The Festival stands ready to make reservations in advance...
...John Mersey's bestselling novel, The Wall, who was supposed to have preserved archives of the Warsaw ghetto. In 1939 Ringelblum was safe in Switzerland, but he went back home to Warsaw to share the fate of his fellow Jews, and to record the manner of their end. Ringelblum and his friends recruited a kind of intelligence staff who, with fantastic dedication, took time off from the task of survival to write notes on what they saw and suffered...
...story goes on, and goes pretty far wrong at the end, but up to this point, in scene after scene, the spectator's heart is touched with recognitions. Moreover, the acting in all the major roles is wonderfully full and natural, and for that and for all the picture's graces of execution, credit is due to Director Daniel (Come Back, Little Sheba) Mann. But the leading virtue of this film derives from James Poe's screenplay, and ultimately from Lonnie Coleman's play, from which it was adapted. That virtue is maturity of feeling...
...official. A "musical" was a man who would take an occasional bribe. "Caterpillar tanks" was the word for those refugees so heavily burdened with their belongings that they could barely crawl. Deported Jews coming into Poland wearing JUDE patches stitched on their clothing said the initials stood for "End of Italy and Germany" (Italiens und Deutschlands Ende...
...shilling piece as a present and promptly rushed to the bazaar with it to buy an old coin. The boy's father unprophetically chided Calouste on his earliest recorded financial deal: "If that's the way you're going to use your money, you'll end up in the gutter...