Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yuri Zhivago is the story of the Russian intellectual--the disintegration of the man of ideas. Zhivago, as a student in the University, welcomes the Revolution; as a professional man displaced, repudiates it; as a degenerate in a one-room Moscow flat, is finally destroyed by it. In the process of that destruction, Pasternak tells the story of Russia in the 20th century--of the parasites who feed on emergent ideologies, of men serving and struggling against systems and faiths they cannot grasp, of the miasma of bureaucracy, land reform, nobility, and military that was Russia after October...
...process of disintegration, Zhivago devolves from a respected physician and devoted poet to a tired, beaten man who dies of a heart attack on a Moscow trolley-car. And that disintegration cannon be ascribed solely to the disruptive political system which surrounds him, to the "inscrutability of universal chaos...
Representatives of the seventeen undergraduate eating clubs started calling on 689 sophomores in their rooms Wednesday evening and will continue the process until next Friday. Thirty-nine members of the class have already chosen not to Bicker and have joined Woodrow Wilson Lodge, the "alternate facility" provided by the University...
...have greater flexibility in designing vital molybdenum parts for missiles. Molybdenum parts are now made by pressing or melting the powdered metal into ingots or billets, then forging, machining or extruding it. The new casting method may permit not only more intricate shapes but also lower costs, since the process may cut the number of steps necessary. But the major U.S. moly producer, American Metal Climax, Inc.. cautioned that it may be some time before the casting method becomes commercially feasible...
...Morningside; Columbia) is one of the best monster pictures ever made for children. In fact, it is so horrifyingly good that some parents may want to scout it before letting their children see it. A new process called Dynamation, in which foam-rubber puppets are filmed in relation to live figures, has produced some chillingly realistic visions of monstrosity...