Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This wonderful tribe," says Author Read, "is gradually growing smaller and smaller and is only a shadow of its former majestic self...
Since then our Paris bureau has kept close tabs on Poujade, and so has the French press. Ex-Bookseller Poujade fumed whenever TIME referred to his following of small shopkeepers and craftsmen as tax dodgers. But he was still eager when Correspondent George de Carvalho, who was his shadow all through the December election campaign, told him that TIME planned a cover story about him. "Well, let's get it over with," said Poujade. "What do you want to know?" Replied De Carvalho: "Everything." Poujade chuckled and nodded: "Go ahead...
...Soviet rulers are now genuinely and absolutely confident of their position. Internally, they are sure there is no shadow of a threat to their regime. Externally, they are sure that the tide of history is now flowing ever more rapidly in the direction of the world hegemony they seek...
Author Kirst's picture of barracks life is only mildly caricature: he knows that the everyday facts are so close to comedy that there is no need to invent the ludi crous. Above all-almost for the first time since Hitler's rise, when the shadow of horror fell on all writing by and about Germans-this book makes at least one group of Germans seem truly human and amusing. For whatever else they were, Gunner Asch suggests the Wehrmacht soldiers were also members in the brother hood of the gripe, card-carriers in the great privates...
...SHADOW OF MY HAND, by Holger Cahill (409 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $4.95), is a juggling act with four themes in the air at all times: 1) an epic of the soil, 2) a love story, 3) a study of an ex-G.I. reorienting himself to peacetime life, and 4) a rough-and-tumble western. Taking the empty-boxcar and hobo-jungle route, Cam Johnson, the novel's hero, beats his way back to the wheat-belt town of his childhood. Buffalo Coulee is Our Town on Central Standard Time, "a rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half...