Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire population (about 2,000) to the main square. The men were led away and machine-gunned. Under the heaps of dead, eleven survived. The women & children were locked in a schoolhouse which, along with the rest of Kalavryta, was put to the torch. A horror-stricken Austrian soldier unbolted the schoolhouse door and some women escaped...
...whose language is strictly from New Jersey, tries to reassure, and flirt with, a half-grown Sicilian girl who knows no English. A German sniper kills them both. 2) A Neapolitan street boy steals the shoes off a drunken Negro soldier. When the Negro spots him later, and sees a little of the neolithic life of Naples' poorest people, he loses interest in his shoes, and learns that U.S. Negroes are not the only unlucky people on earth. 3) A Roman girl, turned prostitute, picks up a besotted soldier, and slowly comes to recognize...
...brought clearing skies to Western Europe. Snow (enough for good skiing) lingered in northern Sweden, but in Stockholm people lounged at noon on steps and benches, tilting their faces to the new sun. One spring night last week at Josefsberg in the Russian Zone of Austria a Red Army soldier had a quarrel in a nightclub; he came back later with a Tommy gun, sprayed the dance floor with bullets, killed the band leader and a customer, wounded more than a dozen. In Britain, country fields shone dazzling green in the clean light, and London shop girls carried home small...
Christopher Fry's "A Phoenix Too Frequent" is about Greece, more or less. It is also about a woman whose husband has died and who wants to follow him to Hades. As she lies in his tomb, a young soldier wanders in. Love follows fast, and by the end of the show the Mrs. sacrifices her husband's body to get her new friend out of an embarrassing shortage...
Mixed with this slim, fable-like plot is an excruciating amalgam of bombast, sex, and stale army jokes. The bombast concerns various theories of life and love. The soldier's jokes got like this: "Now that the war is love we're making pottery." The sex involves the two principals, who remove layers of their clothes at intervals and kiss each other at length. One young observer was heard to remark: "Two people are enjoying themselves, anyway...