Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faustus will be considered a masterpiece by some, a bore by many. A good deal of it reads like Mann's heaviest formal essays. To those who look for it, however, the book offers a masterful explanation of those sides of the German character that welcomed Hitler. Most readers will see a symbolic parallel between Adrian's bargain with the Devil and Germany's similar sellout...
...these pincer-trapped soldiers is the sugar on Author Plievier's German pill. For, having aroused in every German heart a profound compassion for his glorious dead, he icily proceeds to ask: who caused them to die so horribly, and to what end? How does Nordic supremacy look when more than a quarter of a million of its devotees are hobbling and crawling, half-mad and half-dead, through an icy, foreign wasteland? How does the image of the divine Führer look to his worshipers in the moment when they themselves have "become bridges and carpets...
...Look Now. In Tacoma, Wash., police were hunting for the self-conscious burglar who turned Policeman George Paul's picture to the wall while he was robbing the apartment of Paul's sister...
...dressed in a neat double-breasted suit of a soft blue and as always gave the impression of having been very carefully barbered about fifteen minutes before. Where his hair near the part at the front is this, each strand was carefully combed and plastered down, making him look curiously as if he'd been cast for a part in "Up in Central Park...
Chalked up on the blackboard outside the Varsity locker room after Saturday's 20-18 victory over Holy Cross was the following score: "Princeton 55, Virginia 14." Art Valpey's players had a good chance to look at it as they trooped into the showers after the game...