Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gustave, the weary French narrator, had known the SS years before in Dachau, whence he escaped to become a laborer on Frau Rehbach's farm. Gustave can look beyond frightened Willy to enjoy the Alpine spring. "There was still snow upon the summit of the Lady in White, which rose over the dark lake, dwarfing it as the cathedral tower dwarfs the rain puddle. . . ." While a detachment of U.S. troops is making a bordello out of the village inn, the SS men descend from the pine forests to seize Gustave and the Wiedemeyers...
Actually, however, the Poetry Room has always been primarily for those who enjoy reading verso 'for the fun of it," and is designed to provide a comfortable, quiet retreat where interested students may while away an hour or so browsing through their favorite versifiers or discovering a few new ones--from William Blake to Ogden Nash. Unlike the Farnsworth Room, which is better known--and much closer to ground-level-- it is also a circulating library, and books may be taken out, under the usual rules...
This nation's responsibilities do not stop at its frontiers. When and if the United States settles its labor-management squabbles, levels off its price fluctuations, and begins to enjoy the as yet unrealized fruits of peace and full employment, it will face the even more important problem of promating healthy, economic conditions in other countries...
Single non-veteran students will still be the last to enjoy the luxury of a private phone, however, as the telephone office has retained the War Production Board's priority system although the official controls were lifted on January...
Some families, situated on the western end of the development, enjoy added warmth from the afternoon sun. "We still have to cut off the bed-rooms occasionally, but we're not complaining," one mother said