Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...falls screaming on his mother's doorstep. Having spent seven years as an infantryman with the German army, Author Böll writes knowingly and well of the stench and strain of war. But whenever the underlying self-pity shows through the chinks in his dead-pan mask, he seems bent not only on living the war again but also on losing it again...
...caught up in it: they professed themselves sated with it, but they could not escape it. Like polite weekend guests unwillingly trapped in a family quarrel, they could not choose but hear. As the week wore on, the young Princess fulfilled her royal functions, well-armed in the impassive mask of dignity that is royalty's required uniform. In tiara and strapless pink and white gown, she helped her sister the Queen entertain the visiting President of Portugal by sitting through a performance of Smetana's The Bartered Bride, while a soprano sang to a forbidden lover, "Nothing...
...feet last June, they let him take control again, hoping that they could go back to privileged prosperity as usual. But during the post-revolt interlude of "pacification," Perón utterly failed to pacify his opponents: he offered too little freedom, too late. Three weeks ago, dropping the mask of pacification, he summoned his hardcore of labor followers to the Plaza de Mayo, ferociously called for his enemies' annihilation; that may have triggered a revolt that showed signs of long planning...
Bush-League Catcher. Coming into the tenth, Casey had his work cut out for him. Now Silvera was gone; so was the only other Yankee catcher, Elston Howard. Who could put on the mask and pads to help hold off the Sox? Once more, Casey's brain clicked and whirred. He remembered Hank Bauer in Quincy, Ill., in the Three-I League, ten years ago. Hank had handled the tools of ignorance briefly in those days as a busher. Besides, the ex-marine was an old pro, the kind of guy who would stop a hard one with...
...forthcoming Communist order. But a student of the language of Communism should also know Marx's opinion that among the proletarians the family practically does not exist (or in any case is a device for capitalist exploitation of their children) and among the bourgeoisie is merely a mask for prostitution...