Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front door, build a lawn and admire magnificent mountains as he did so, raise his children decently, and with luck own a boat or a shack in the woods. In moments of contemplation he could fervently pity the unfortunate people "back east"-i.e., all who live between Butte, Mont, and the Atlantic...
Last week Dr. Ferdinand R. Schemm, chief investigator at the Western Foundation for Clinical Research in Great Falls, Mont., learned that the National Heart Institute would grant $33,000 in the coming fiscal year to advance the work which has already made the Schemm treatment for dropsy world-famous...
...BARKEEP OF BLÉMONT (280 pp.)-Marcel Aymé-Harper...
Since the war, French fiction has been obsessed with the theme of the Resistance movement. Usually it portrays the movement with the moralistic, black & white simplicity of Zane Grey on the subject of cowboys and rustlers. In dealing with the theme in The Barkeep of Blémont, French Novelist Marcel Aymé has granted it some of the complexity it possesses. Because he has gone beyond mere slogans and asked himself how people actually felt and behaved immediately following France's Liberation, his novel shines with quiet credibility...
...Barkeep of Blémont hardly manages to encompass the round story of the Resistance and Liberation; there was more altruism, idealism and common sense to it than Author Aymé admits. But he does strike a stout blow for the easygoing natural man in his perennial struggle with those to whom "an idea or creed takes precedence over life itself." The rest of Author Aymé's assumption is that the easygoing fellow is doomed from the start...