Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clark was informed in 1954 that he would not be reappointed. He refused to leave his post, but his passport was picked up under State Department orders, forcing his return to the United States...
...will probably get him the money he needs to operate his department for the remainder of the fiscal year. While Congress is acting on his request for $47 million, Summerfield should also reemphasize the need for an increase in some of the postal rates in order to place the Post Office Department in a sounder financial position...
Dada, the yeasty nihilistic movement of post-World War I days, seemed tired and tattered, its once-youthful stars well past middle age. Even the exhibits had lost most of their punch-Man Ray's ticking metronome with a staring eye impaled on the blade, entitled Object to Destroy; Marcel Duchamp's bearded and mustachioed version of the Mona Lisa; a mirror into which visitors peered until they saw the title, Portrait of an Imbecile...
...they seem deliberately injected for shock value. As for the symbolism and the irony (though Remarque says no symbolism was intended), they could scarcely be more obvious-the most valuable stone, a black obelisk, winds up as the marker over a prostitute's grave, and in a post-World War II epilogue, only the madhouse and the maternity hospital are left undamaged. Remarque has long ago mastered a direct, insistent style that keeps the pages turning even when he seems all but mesmerized by the sententious cliche. There is much in this book that is funny, rueful and sorrowfully...
...Western Front) Remarque twelve years ago. "Even when I dream, it is about America." Remarque, now a U.S. citizen, may have American dreams, but his memories are still German. After several books on the Nazi-World War II era, he has now returned to the scene of his earlier. post-Versailles trips among the ruins (The Road Back, Three Comrades). The quality of the new book and of its time is simply -almost too simply-defined by its central situation: the hero works for a tombstone firm, and the girl he loves is a schizophrenic at the local insane asylum...