Word: spells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adolf Hitler and his works is curiously resistant to the historian's approach. Such massive evil can scarcely be conveyed by facts, figures and chronology. What is needed is another Dante with a genius for portraying hell, or a new Wagner who can translate horror into myth and spell out the dread meanings in a Götterdämmerung finale. Surrealist imagination, not research, may one day tell the definitive story; in the meantime, there are books...
...marital crack-up in a far more ferocious setting than is usually found in the bored, semi-Freudian cold war between American husbands and wives. If Author Memmi's lovers never have a chance, it takes marriage to prove it. If they part in bitterness, they at least spell out the causes...
Monro will spell out his proposals to other universities at the meeting of the College Scholarship Services on Oct. 25. Hopefully a talent-hunting organization similar in scope to the National Science Foundation, but working closely with local schools, will result. Spreading admissions nets as wide and as deep as possible is unquestionably good; but unquestionably the colleges will have to come around--as Monro's plan does--to the business of reaching people and helping them want to come to college...
Because The Passionate Sightseer offers so clear an image of Berenson's personality, one finds it hard not to fall under his spell. His way of life immediately communicates itself as a particularly rewarding one. His approach to life, his careful cultivation of the good and the beautiful (especially the beautiful) becomes intensely attractive...
This week in South Dakota, Nixon promised to spell out the second half of his program: "Operation Safeguard," designed to prevent the production of more farm surpluses while "Operation Consume" eats up the plenty that the U.S. already...