Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guillen maintained, however, that we must abandon all pretense to all modern standards of taste to understand Berceo and the kind of poetry he represents. He suggested that Berceo's poetry should be studied as if it were seen "through a crystal...
...agreed that the Soviet system has advantages. But he has seen the important defects in education in Hungary, where a copy of the Soviet system was imposed. The Communist system, the student asserted, had lower standards than the schools that existed in the satellite countries before they turned Communist...
From all the world's front pages last week flashed the snaggle-toothed grin of a stubby little muzhik-a peasant's son who in less than five years had emerged from relative obscurity to become the most amazing dictator the world had ever seen. This was no introverted intellectual like Lenin, no hysterical neurotic like Hitler, no brooding Byzantine murderer like Stalin. This was a cocky, ebullient farm boy-a man who could work all day, drink all night and, as he demonstrated again and again last week, jauntily settle historic issues with a quip...
...marshes near Sicily's town of Marsala, Hunter Paolo Lamia took aim, shot down a black-plumed, white-breasted stilt plover, a breed seldom seen in Italy, which migrates each fall from Arctic Siberia to North Africa. On the bird's right leg Lamia found a glass vial containing a message, written in Italian with scrawled capital letters on both sides of an eight-inch strip of paper. On orders of the Ministry of the Interior, the paper was painstakingly analyzed, determined to be of Russian manufacture. The message: "Many messages but no hope. For 13 years...
...around her so that the husband can see what's inside and the audience can't. But by this time, the spectator, if he happens to be grownup, may not be looking anyway. If sex is the object, there is just about as much to be seen in almost any Hollywood film, and in promulgating Brigitte as a full-blown enchantress, the French have clearly sent a girl to do a woman...