Word: wartorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trials of unthroned royalty seems a banal topic, but Anastasia might have had possibilities, especially in a portrayal of the renewal of a wartorn psyche. Instead, Marcelle Maurette has choosen to emphasize the pure romance of the story and, even worse, clouds the romance with her allegorical reflections. For this reason, Anastasia is dramatic, but, on the whole, not worth the trouble...
...financial burden of Korea [piled] deficit on deficit, debt on debt, and tax on tax . . . Shooting and bloodshed in Korea are ended, at least for the time being . . . Our every effort is at work to fashion a lasting, sound and equitable peace and substitute reconstruction for destruction in that wartorn land...
TIME's readers have also done their share toward helping the children of wartorn European countries. Mrs. Lenore Sorin, a director of the Foster Parents' Plan for War Children, tells me that as a result of four advertisements in TIME in the past year, she has received "adoptions" ($180 a year toward the care of a particular child) and extra contributions totaling well over $100,000. Mrs. Sorin hopes that soon her organization will be able to start helping children in Korea as well...