Word: placed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choose to recuperate at Baden-Baden or some other spa, imbibing mineral waters and immersing himself in medicinal mud at company expense. Other German executives annually are given blank airline tickets for themselves and their wives. They may fill out the tickets for "business" trips to any place they care to visit...
...burned away until only an irreducible essence remains. As the surveyor, Schell accurately embodies the man known only as "K." His agony and bewilderment are true, to the final exhausted syllable. The villagers are a finely balanced mixture of arrogance and dread. Kafka's tales all take place in limbo; the movie fills its snowbound setting with an unworldly black-comic air appropriate to the author, whom Thomas Mann called "a religious humorist." Pompous officials deliver pronunciamentos even when there is no one left to listen. A girl tumbles into the surveyor's bed-and exhibits neither love...
Young Novelist Thomas Keneally showed his talents in Bring Larks and Heroes (TIME, Aug. 16), which bore on the special subject of colonial servitude. Despite its title, Three Cheers for the Paraclete is less special. Modern Sydney, where the story takes place, is not remote; indeed, its population, one-sixth Irish Catholic, lends the quality of life there something of the familiar, built-in tensions of Boston or Philadelphia...
...without episcopal imprimatur) called The Meanings of God, and it is his undoing. He explains the work as "a history of the God of the institutions, pulpits, political parties and wreath-laying generals. It is a history of the abuse of the notion of God and of its place in the motives of modern...
...Must' Win Three" the Herald Traveler headlines ran before the Rangers' game last night, but already, with the Bruins still clinging to a shot at first place in the Eastern Division of the NHL, Bruins fans were looking to the Stanley...