Word: walpurgisnacht
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong, of course. The German breakthrough in the Ardennes requires that the company be flung into the breach. Captain Albert once more fails. The film ends in a woolly Walpurgisnacht in which Palance, after slaughtering quantities of Nazis, is ground into the mud by an enemy tank while Albert alternately cowers in bed and runs berserk with a submachine gun until finally shot dead in a cellar by Smithers, who then nobly surrenders...
There were no such glum reflections in the Kremlin. Scarcely had Adenauer disappeared than a swarm of East Germans, headed by Premier Otto Grotewohl, flew in as if on cue In the next few days, the Kremlin resounded with revelry as masters and puppets staged a weird, diplomatic Walpurgisnacht dance of triumph, like so many witches cackling over some treacherous bargain. "We laugh at Adenauer," crowed Grotewohl, and Deputy Premier Otto Nuschke, with the Russians' beaming approval, deliberately mocked at every Adenauer claim of achievement. "What Premier Bulganin promised Adenauer about the release of ... prisoners was only the result...
...night when 13 Briggs Hall hoydens stormed the Cabot jolly-up. This typical Cabot Hall girl (top) was quoted as saying "I always knew what kind of people lived on the other side of the quad." The cause of the invasion was a painting called "Lower Depths" by Hortense Walpurgisnacht '55 depicting the average Briggs girl. It was quickly torn down by the invaders...