Word: journey
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...coin of purest gold, a kind of grass, and a species of hen. Among them was a young Frenchman named René Caillé, who, dressed as an Arab, talked of his captivity by the Egyptians, was accepted as a Moslem and was able to make his famed journey safely to Timbuktu. After him other Frenchmen came, and eventually, by the "rules of the game,"*laid down by the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 for spreading civilization throughout darkest Africa, French hegemony over the area was recognized. The "scramble for Africa" was on, and there was little the Africans could...
...Pather Panchali (TIME, Oct. 20). told a story of village life in northern India; of how a family tree was felled by the wind of the world; and of how the survivors, in anguish and confusion, broke with the medieval past and set out upon the weary and sorrowful journey to modern times. Aparajito ("The Story of Apu") describes their dreadful, beautiful encounter with the future...
Harvard squash followers will no doubt remember a similar trip two years ago, when Jack Barnaby's squad, led by the brilliant Ben Hecksher, went on this exact same journey and met a totally unexpected disaster at Navy and Princeton. That year, however, the Crimson was heavily favored to take the Eastern title, and it is more than likely that overconfidence played an important part in the two upsets. Such is not the case this winter. The varsity has no illusions about being clearly superior to the rest of the league and is ready for a rough battle, especially from...
Requiem for a Nun (by William Faulkner) is a journey through the dark night of the soul with a hint of dawn beyond. Its characters do not have the stature for tragedy, yet it is dense with guilt, pity and terror, and it frequently grips the audience in its palm like sinners in the hands of an angry...
...Journey (Alby; MGM) takes the road that is rutted with good intentions. The film was apparently planned, in a soft-headed way, as an effort to find a silver lining in the Iron Curtain. As it has turned out, it seems no more than an unfeeling attempt to make a little money. The hero of the story is a soulful Russian major (Yul Brynner) who commands a border garrison during the 1956 Hungarian rebellion and the ensuing slaughter. He detains a busload of foreigners who are trying to leave the country, because he suspects that some of them may really...