Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said bluntly: "Let's be honest. No one really wants German reunification. No one!" With equal force, Khrushchev ruled out any attempt to unite the 54 million West Germans with 17 million East Germans by free elections (that would mean, he said, that "the majority, not truth, would triumph...
Director Stevens' triumph is all the more stunning in view of the fact that the story of Anne Frank is an extremely tiny story, and what there is of it is unsuited to the prime cinematic requirement that a motion picture must have motion. Little Anne was 13 years old when her family, together with another Jewish family and a querulous dentist, were forced to hide out in the attic of an Amsterdam factory to escape the Nazi pogrom. For two years the eight fugitives, supplied with meager amounts of food by friends, crouched in the same wretched refuge...
Tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair...
...Macmillan, pale but still game, stopped back in London from his visit to Bonn, some of his more enthusiastic admirers were hailing his journeys as the diplomatic triumph of the age. SUPERMAC! HE DOES IT AGAIN ! headlined London's Daily Sketch. Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail-which, like most British papers, finds the West Germans too unbending toward Russia-had wondrous news to impart. In Bonn, confided the Daily Mail, Macmillan "completely won over Dr. Adenauer, to a system of step-by-step disarmament in Central Europe...
...narrowing because it breaks down the feelings of wonder and strangeness with which a child responds to something new, substituting mere indifference. Furthermore, in destroying the attractive image of Europeans formed in childhood it replaces them with the easy stereotypes to which the tourist is most often exposed. The triumph of "really getting to know the people," prime goal of the sincere and energetic travellers, usually consists of conversations in museums, evenings in the beercellars, and native dating. Intellectually, there is little contact; such as there is stays mainly in the of politics, or the racial problem in our South...