Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bernard Montgomery's Eighth Army grappled with stoutly resisting Germans for ridge tops and villages barring the way to Pescara, Adriatic terminus of the shortest transpeninsular road to Rome. On the Tyrrhenian side of the Apennines, General Mark Clark's Fifth Army climbed and clawed the mountain slopes where Wehrmacht pillboxes blocked the old Via Casilina route to the Tiber. By week's end, after three bloody days of artillery and infantry fighting, the Fifth took San Pietro village, moved toward the key Liri Valley town of Cassino...
Progressive education's most famous outpost, little Black Mountain College (TIME, June 19, 1939) in North Carolina's Craggy Mountains, is now ten years old. Of its founders there remained on the spot last week only a dog, a housekeeper, a librarian and three professors. But they, their associates and 57 students (now mostly girls) buzzing about the sleek, modernistic study hall and the small outlying dormitories were continuing to make Black Mountain one of the most unorthodox and interesting of U.S. educational institutions...
...Black Mountain cannot give degrees because its bank account is not big enough to meet State requirements (it has no endowment); neither is its library (only 10,000 books). But the college, believing that no sheepskin can civilize a cultural wolf, is unconcerned about a degree's cash or glamour value. Black Mountain aims to give an education in the art of living. Its double emphasis is on the student's individuality and on the fact that he is inevitably a member of a social group. Thus, he may study whatever courses he pleases, but he must also...
Social Life. Black Mountain's faculty of 20 includes a batch of noted European refugees, such as Artist Josef Albers of the Bauhaus (TIME, Dec. 19, 1938), and New Dealish Americans such as Econo mist Clark Foreman...
Most striking example of the shortcomings of U.S. fiction in 1943 was Jesse Stuart's Taps for Private Tussie ($2.75), in which a story of a Kentucky mountain child's uncanny poetic observation was curdled by a burlesque-show farce of life among his elders. The brilliant portraits of anti-Soviet Author Mark Aldanov's Russian novel, The Fifth Seal ($3), were blurred in the diffuse and incoherent story...