Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dear TIME-Reader From time to time this letter has discussed you-the TiME-reader-in general. This week I should like to salute a few remote and lonely TIME-readers who read our magazine behind the Iron Curtain, often at considerable risk...
...present, the handful of copies sent to Russia go to foreign diplomats in Moscow or to official libraries and institutes. The rugged individualists who still read TIME behind the Iron Curtain are in the satellites. Their eagerness for news of the Free World must make them hardened to danger, for they sometimes communicate with us, insist that we continue their subscriptions, and by some oversight of bureaucracy receive their copies of TIME regularly-sometimes for years...
...CROSS OF IRON (456 pp.)-Willi Heinrich-Bobbs-Merrill...
...novelists are getting their second wind. In two months, half a dozen or so tales of combat action have seen print. The latest, a German entry titled The Cross of Iron, is the most savagely powerful portraiture of men at war on the eastern front since Theodor Plievier's Stalingrad. Possibly because they belonged to the winning side, U.S. writers tend to see war as a personality-developing experience in which a man can forge his own identity. As a loser, the German writer must salvage for his hero both identity and meaning from a lost cause pursued beyond...
...near-senseless attacks and counterattacks, Author Heinrich has his hero make two kinds of sense. One is the unspoken sense of togetherness in the brotherhood of suffering, or as Steiner tries to put it, "By himself a man is scrap iron." The other is that courage has a logic (or a lunacy) all its own: "To fight for a conviction does not require heroism. Heroism begins where the meaninglessness of the sacrifice remains the last, only message the dead can leave behind." You Mustn't Bawl. The simple footslogger passes this test best in The Cross of Iron. Novelist...