Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freedom-a glowing symbol, 100 miles inside the Iron Curtain, of successful allied policy and capitalist prosperity, a haven for thousands upon thousands of East German refugees in flight from the drab, despondent backdrop of Communist East Germany. West Berlin's symbolism is repeated on a much larger scale in Konrad Adenauer's German Federal Republic. To erase Western strength in Berlin would be a sure step toward weakening West Germany, and the Russians have never ceased trying to punch a hole in NATO, to neutralize Germany and take it out of play by a succession of alternate...
...have been put on the defensive by the inspiring demonstration there of what free men can do. Internally, Red China is feverishly imposing a communization program designed quickly to transform the Chinese nation into a great military and industrial power. The program involves human slavery, and cruelty on a scale unprecedented in all world history...
...quite goes its own way either. It ingeniously makes drunkenness an excuse for soliloquizing and a basis for seeing ghosts; but where Shakespeare uses both very early and formatively, Rice brings in both very late, making them misshape rather than mold John Kerr's nicely played but small-scale snarling boy. The play is most striking where, toward the end, it shifts the moral limelight from son to mother; and Diana Wynyard plays these later scenes brilliantly...
...that a condemned man has not saved his cigarette butts, betting their Sunday bacon on whether the quare fellow will hang, greedily rushing the guard carrying the quare fellow's last dinner, fighting in the quare fellow's grave over his salable last letters. As a large-scale muralist, Behan lacks concentration and power; as a thumbnail etcher, he is at his vividest first-rate...
...large-scale blaze swept through the Bat Club last night, gutting the interiors of the second and third floors of the 53 Mt. Auburn St. building. A crowd of about 300 cheering, yelling students braved the below-freezing temperatures and crowded the streets for 45 minutes to watch the fire...