Word: flee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Week ceremonial which they have colored and absorbed into their own folklore. In effigy, "Monsieur Judas" will come to visit the peasants as one of the twelve apostles and an honored guest. But as soon as the death of Christ is announced on Good Friday, the symbolic traitor will flee, and the hunt will begin early on Holy Saturday...
...bile (Italian for papal timber). Only six years ago, jovial, friendly Giacomo Lercaro was a mere parish priest, but one who had distinguished himself as an antiFascist. During the war he preached outspokenly against the Germans, aided partisans and sheltered refugees so effectively that eventually he was forced to flee for his life to a monastery cell. In 1947, when the Communists were riding high, the Vatican made Father Lercaro an archbishop and packed him off to Ravenna, one of the Reddest cities in Italy...
...year. More apt, the new title recognizes the two foci of the symposium: the state of American society, facing the threats of mass culture and a pressure for conformity; and the dilemma of the American intellectual, seeking a place for himself in a cultural context he can no longer flee...
...this with a light heart," said he. "But I must explain that when hundreds of thousands flee, hundreds of thousands of others take their places, and they may be Russians or Asians. Every German who remains defends a piece of Germany, a piece of the Western world...
Americans may picture refugees as stoic people with babushkas and cardboard suitcases. Actually, they are scared, often hopeless people, and they come with nothing, for baggage in East Germany is a sign of flight or intent to flee-punishable offenses. Though the Communists methodically plug one exit after another into West Germany, 1,000 refugees a day now pour into West Berlin, and authorities expect the figure will eventually climb to as much...