Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sky. Next day the aging warriors voted themselves a bonanza. They whipped through a resolution which called for pensions to all World War I veterans and their dependents equivalent to those paid Spanish-American War veterans ($90 a month after 65). Then they passed another asking pensions for veterans of both wars-$60 a month at 55, $75 a month after 65. Such laws would add more than $1 billion to the federal budget right away; by 1985, when the average World War II veteran is 55 or older, it would cost more than $8 billion a year...
...University of Rostock) who still teaches the subject, was elected rector by his colleagues. Once a professor is approved, he is free to say what he wants (in the Russian zone, professors must submit lecture topics for Soviet O.K.). Books are so scarce that Mimeographed lecture notes sell for sky-high prices on the black market...
...SKY IS RED (397 pp.)-Giuseppe Berto-New Directions...
...hard to see why. The Sky Is Red is a perfect reflection of the numbness beyond despair felt by a people still suffering from the results of dictatorship and defeat. Indifferent to the larger issues of the war, Berto writes only about its limited consequences in the lives of a few children...
...Berto has a lot to learn. He knows very little about how to pace a novel, how to build up climaxes and tighten tensions; he often touches the incongruous by putting much too mature speeches into the mouths of his babes. But most U.S. readers will find in The Sky Is Red, as in such recent Italian films as Open City and Shoe-Shine, a raw and brutal vitality that slicker performances often lack...