Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small World. For the unforgiving, who cannot forget the Nazis' cruel conquests, there is savage irony in the fact that the Freedom Bell now rings out daily over the city that was the capital of Adolf Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich. But the Nazis never won a free election in Berlin, even failed to get a majority in the first municipal elections held there after Hitler came to power...
Fourteen years after the war, his nation restored to world councils, his society surprisingly stable and democratic, the German no longer lives just to work; he works to live-and to forget the grim existence before 1948, the year West Germany's struggling economy was remodeled and started on the road to today's success. After this Economic Year One, Germans spent their money in distinct waves. First came the food wave. A year or two later. Germans went on a clothing spree. As the hunger for these basic things was satisfied, demand focused on household goods, then...
...Cause has all the fatalistic qualities of a Greek drama combined with the twisted and decadent realism of a Tennessee Williams play. The plot of the movie largely depends upon the tragedy of misunderstanding; Jim Stark's parents misunderstand him; the same is true for Judy; Plato tries to forget his parents and adopts Jim as his father-image ("Why couldn't you have been my Dad?"); and, as usual, the police manage to misunderstand everyone...
...single people, the great, the only, the unique French people." This statement, delivered in the seat of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain's wartime collaborationist government, seemed to most Frenchmen to be De Gaulle's way of saying that the time had come to forgive and forget World War II collaboration with the Germans. Last week his countrymen learned once again how risky it is to interpret their unbending leader...
...Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and even they only wrote a few. Ida is second-rate, but authentic; a weak sister, but still one of the family. This production is unlikely to make any fanatical converts, but Agassiz these days is still a pretty good place in which to forget worldly cares...