Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national anthem, now played along with the Internationale, still proclaimed: "Poland is not yet lost." But many a Pole was beginning to wonder. Arrests of the Government's political opponents were rapidly increasing in number from week to week. The Catholic hierarchy and clergy, completely abandoning its technically impartial position, openly urged Poles to vote against the Communist-dominated Government. The Government thundered back: "The Vatican is a friend of the Germans!" Anti-Semitic terrorists circulated stories that the Government had allowed Jews to torture and kill 160 non-Jewish Poles imprisoned in the city of Radom. The extreme...
...existence-he may be plunged into the world of St. Augustine, Grace & Freedom, or into the Reformation, or the ancient tragedies, or medieval economic life-and all this with no more than a kindergarten child's knowledge of the great words and concepts of religion. It is no wonder that history remains a riddle to the ordinary student, and philosophy a dull and mysterious irrelevance...
...hands of Stella Karns, a businesswoman as bright and hard as a new dime. Stella muscled Mary Margaret into radio practically on her own terms. She also does as she pleases with Mary Margaret, of whom she snorts: "She chews the rag so much, it's a wonder she doesn't have lint on the lungs...
...smoothest movie team: small, elegant Director Marcel Carne and tousled Writer Jacques Preévert (Hôtel du Nord, Le Jour se Léve). U.S. moviegoers, unaccustomed to concentrated mixtures of sex, cynicism and murky symbolism, may enjoy the picture's sharply witty individual scenes and wonder what they all add up to. The overall theme might boil down to this: "Life is a tragicomedy, whether viewed from an expensive seat or from the peanut gallery. Better just chuckle and enjoy it-if you can manage to hold back the tears...
...wonder with the cape and the muleta, standing immovable, close to the bull, forcing the bull to charge between him and the barrier-a very dangerous trick. Because of his daring the bulls have ripped his skintight pants in every fight so far, have often tossed him in the air though never gored him. (He thriftily rents his suits for $50 for each performance instead of buying them for $600.) His greatest flaw: he was not clean or quick enough at the kill...