Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forces of order," tommy guns in hand, entered the confines of the university, striking the students with the butts of their guns, forcing them to retreat into the classrooms (several students, fleeing the police, were able to take refuge in a class for foreign students where they felt fairly safe, knowing that the police would be hesitant to make an appearance in the face of so many foreign witnesses.) This outrageous violation of the university grounds was next day described cynically in the official press as follows: "The police penetrated only a few feet across the main gate...
Without Post-Mortem. Then the curtain descended. Shortly after Wallenberg was picked up by the NKVD, a Russian official in Stockholm declared: "Wallen berg is not really a prisoner. He committed some follies after liberation; therefore he had to be taken care of. He will return soon safe and sound...
...frankly describes the regime as totalitarian, and notes critically that people "say what is safe to say. I don't know whether they believe it or not." His reports indicate that the Chinese national character has given a slightly different tone to communism, that while it remains the "same system, it is less noticeably oppressive and regimented" than the Russian...
...press on. In a 1950 movie comedy, Champagne for Caesar, Ronald Colman played an omniscient scholar who almost wins a quiz-show sponsor's $40 million soap company. Says Sponsor Rosenhaus: "Everybody keeps asking if Van Doren is going to win the Geritol company. But we're safe." Geritol's contract with Barry & Enright limits its annual outlay for prizes to $520,000; anything over that comes out of the producers' pocket. So far, Van Doren's winnings have been running Barry & Enright into the hole at the rate of $2,200 a week. Nevertheless...
...bourgeois realities.'' Last spring, in its show of French moderns, the Hermitage moved further, hung 20 Matisses, 17 Gauguins, 19 Cézannes, 21 Monets and 24 pre-Cubist Picassos. But it will probably be years before the full glory of Soviet modern-art acquisitions is considered safe enough to be seen. Modern art is still suspect. Says cautious Hermitage Director Mikhail Artamonov: "Modern Western art is not uniform. Some new paintings are quite unacceptable for us, though doubtlessly there are some outstanding achievements of modern...