Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goodbye-as gay as Mann could ever get. And yet his last words will also provoke serious interpretation. Felix Krull is a picaresque novel, and it stands, looking sometimes a little lump ish, in the raffish succession of The Golden Ass to Don Quixote to A Sentimental Journey to Lafcadio's Adventures to (sob!) L'il Abner itself. The book's first fragment (54 pages) was published more than 30 years ago-inspired by the impassioned morbidities of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. But most of the final 330 pages, written in the last years...
...right to leave one's country and go elsewhere. Since World War II, well over a million escapees and refugees have fled west to escape the secret police, forced labor or other aspects of life in an Orwellian 1984. For the old, the ill, or the unemployable the journey was, in Communist eyes, good riddance. But the departure of the young and the skilled was a loss, as well as bad propaganda. In recent months a concerted serenade has sounded from behind the Iron Curtain: come home and all will be forgiven...
...with the President. The Senate gave Ike authority to intervene in the area of Formosa. Overwhelmingly approved were the treaties for German rearmament, the end of Austrian occupation, and mutual defense with Southeast Asia and Nationalist China. Congress also gave the President strong bipartisan support on his journey to Geneva...
...Sister Benedicta's fellow religious at Echt soon received a brief message: "Greetings from my journey to Poland. Sister Benedicta." On Aug. 9, 1942 Edith Stein and her sister Rosa died in the gas chamber at Auschwitz...
...base camps of the Big Four, a panoply of potentates and elected chieftains made ready for the fateful journey...