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...enough to make Richard Wagner turn in his grave. On the great stage of the roofless, littered Cologne Opera House a skinny little doughboy, shrouded in the pretentious livery of Siegfried, sang "Saint Louis Woman . . ." to a buxom, bearded, Brünnhilde. A G.I. strode past, sporting a foot-high Cossack hat of white fur. Romeo, a Matterhorn of meat and muscle, was there, and Juliet, too, her black wig on backwards. One battle-grimed dough-foot had abandoned his bazooka for a slide trombone. Seven pianos were going at once...
...speedy but smooth conversion of war industries to civilian production. Food supplies must be assured throughout the transition period. And Britain must herself produce most of what she needed. A staggering program of four million new houses must be started immediately for the blitzed Britons who were roofless or in damaged homes. Full employment, social security, education, national health services he also made "musts...
...Plymouth the bombs came down hard in 1941. St. Andrew's Church, where the congregation ran away one Sunday in 1573 to welcome Sir Francis Drake back from the New World, is now a mocking, roofless shell. So are thousands of other buildings. But Plymouth has Parliament's permission to plan for postwar reconstruction along bold new lines...
Munch's hatred of "the public"-which at first responded in kind, though later he got as much as $10,000 for a canvas-lasted a lifetime. Toward the end he worked in a roofless, grass-floored studio surrounded by barbed wire. Only two people were admitted-an expressman and Munch's friend Pola Gauguin, son of the French painter. He named his garden plants after art critics, and gave those who offended him the trowel...
...factory's pride is a huge 500-ton hydraulic press, bought in the U.S. before the war, removed from its first site and reassembled in midwinter in a roofless, windowless shed...