Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parthenon Above the Rubble. From the ferry returning to Stalingrad, the structure that stood out most prominently in the sun's slanting rays was the theater. On the high point of the bluff above the water, with its white-columned portico and low classical pediment, it recalled the Parthenon above Athens. The resemblance was not just physical. For what the architect told us was true. Since dialectical materialism rules out a next life, the good things of this life are the best hope the Soviet system has to offer. What their temples meant to the ancient Greeks, theaters symbolize...
...missions in the Middle East are having an especially hard time. Americans as well as Moslems told me that U.S. prestige had hit an alltime low because of our official support for the Zionist position, for what seem to them to be domestic political motives...
...last week, the market demonstrated that it needed a raising of confidence more than a lowering of margins. Burdened by the talk of a steel strike and a possible recession, the stockmarket had fallen to a low for 1947. Then at week's end came a rumor that U.S. Steel and the C.I.O. Steelworkers had reached an agreement. Stocks shot up from one to three points. When the rumor became fact this week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) the average climbed an additional 1.06 points...
...slated to receive at 60; 3) a royalty of $5 for each unit sold over 5,000 of a motorized wheelbarrow that Bell invented. The directors also set up a stock option plan for Bell to buy up to 50,000 shares of common at prices as low as half the market value...
...teacher opposes his bosses and wins over his pupils with the unpretentious methods of good sense, kindliness, and a talent for interesting children in singing. The picture is never as ambitious or exciting as the best of Torment, but it never loses its own particular low-keyed charm. Both films demonstrate the superiority of good sense over nonsense and are excellent sermons against big & little forms of tyranny...