Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Triple-riveted into the American Dream is a shining picture called The Little Gray Home in the West. And nowhere is it shinier than in real estate brochures aimed at retirement-age oldsters. Sadly, in all too many cases, the grass and sparkling water, recreational facilities and well-paved roads of Retirement Land are only so much printer's ink. Items...
...Translations: curving putts, sand traps, and the grass where the fairway meets the green...
...Socialists almost a year ago to form Italy's apertura a sinistra ("opening to the left"), the uneasy alliance has been clouded by a single issue: Nenni's demand for the creation of 15 regional administrations that he figures will boost his party's grass-roots support. Fanfani agreed to pay Nenni's price because he needed the Socialists' 88 votes in the Chamber of Deputies in order to stay in power, but he stalled on enacting the scheme just the same...
...color photography is pretty, if you like the montage of dreary brown buildings with drearier green grass, and director Ronald Neame uses the camera with heavy-handed steadiness throughout the movie. One bad effect that sticks out from the rest is the effort to produce a symbolic snowfall at the end, to parallel Joyce's Dubliners. Neame had no snowstorm, however, so he had home-made snow dropped before his camera, resulting in the most phony look of the week. Scottish monomaniacs will like the incessant squirl of bagpipes, but most people tend to get very tired very quickly...
...Patriotic Duty." Böll, Johnson and Grass clearly do not fit into any neat school of literature. Böll is a Christian humanist. Grass is a compassionate anarchist. Johnson is a Marx-influenced socialist who hates the Communist Party. What they and the other Group 47 writers most closely resemble is a kind of self-elected national conscience for Germany. Especially among the younger members, the appearance of anything or anyone that recalls the advent of Naziism sends Group 47 into the kind of panic which children whose parents have been destroyed by alcohol might feel...