Word: seems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summed up all the doubts, fears and confusions which hang like a heavy fog over Germany. The nation which produced Goethe and Goebbels, great cultural triumphs and human incinerators, has always produced eerie contrasts. Today, these contrasts seem to have taken physical shape. The face of Germany is hideously scarred-and yet, almost every where, one sees another face which is sleek and smooth...
...rnberg, which Germans used to call their Schatzküstlein (little jewel box), one looks down at night from the great 11th Century castle on the sparkling lights below which seem to stud a living, healthy city. But in the light of day, the city is a ruin, rendered only more monstrous by the neat little gingerbread houses which poke impertinently above the debris...
...done everything we know To relieve them of their dough, But the blighters seem to still have plenty more...
...Colombian politicos did not seem disturbed by the virtual shutdown on wildcatting. Their country was bigger than Venezuela, they reasoned, with coffee, gold and other cash products besides oil. Many even argued that an oil boom would hinder the country's all-round development, and pointed to oil-rich Venezuela's deficient agriculture and industry for proof. "What will Venezuela have to show for lying supine before the drillers?" snapped a young Colombian oil-ministry bureaucrat. "Holes, that...
...downstairs part will serve as a museum for Rivera's pre-Cortesian sculptures. Stone-grey and stone-cold, the rooms coil upon each other in a snakelike labyrinth. In the ceilings are white stone mosaics different from anything Rivera has done before-deceptively simple abstractions that seem to waver, cloudlike, on the edge of recognizability. One of them, representing Tlaloc the rain god, is a face formed of two writhing snakes, set so as to be reflected in a sunken pool. The tower of the god of air is so designed that a chill draft eddies through...