Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scrabbly hill country of central Pennsylvania, where coal runs rich to the surface, a man could almost breathe the trouble in the air. Across five counties the peace was broken by Americans fighting Americans...
...Only one man is expected to see both offensive and defensive service against the Crimson. Because of an early season injury to offensive regular Harry Cassel, Harvey Sampson will serve full time at the left end position...
...found in the work of such prose writers as Thornton Wilder, and such modern poets as Frederic Prokosch, Karl Shapiro, and Peter Viereck. He especially commended Vierock, who, he said, has been alone in his attempt to "convey with lucidity and power certain fundamental realities. of the spirit of man-which is the true purpose of all literature...
Burlingame, the first speaker, had maintained that there are "practical reasons" for what he termed the present "lapse" in American writing. He predicted that an approaching "synthesis of science with the humanities will help produce a literature that will better enable man to understand his position in an industrialized society...
...subtlety with which she shrouds the butchery is Mme. Jakubowska's greatest achievement. A Nazi officer killing a child whistles unconcernedly throughout; another SS man calmly plays the gramophone while his henchmen single their victim's flesh with hot pokers. Probably most effective and certainly most pathetic are the scenes showing the girl who was chosen to lead the band as it played the rhythms to which the whole camp marched; during all the thousand crimes which the Nazis committed to the tune of her music, she had to stand alone on her bandstand without flinching...