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...writers intelligent enough to acknowledge Mrs. Thirkell's leadership (like Nevil Shute and 'Miss Read') have always enjoyed the quiet success their sound judgment deserved; those rebellious Angries (like John Braine, John Wain and that lot) who have ignored her example have inevitably become eminently unreadable. Their prose becomes barren, sluggish and didactic; their characters tedious; and their plots angular or absurd...
Less than Ecstatic. Delighted though they were that their City Opera had suitable quarters for the first time since the end of the war, West Berliners were less than ecstatic about Architect Fritz Bornemann's barren modern design. The opera's enormous, slablike stone fagade, 660 ft. long and 126 ft. high, was quickly dubbed the "Wailing Wall...
...robbery and murder. Siberia was synonymous with space, silence, emptiness and snowbound darkness for 20 hours of every winter's day. The grim land was said to unhinge men's minds: bored Czarist officers in isolated forts broke the monotony by playing Russian roulette. Settlers in the barren north fell victim to "arctic hysteria...
...going of scientists from many laboratories create the air of important things afoot. The number of employees of Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co., which supplies nonscientist help, has jumped to 1,600 from 878 in 1960. Total employment at the site is now about 2,500. On the great barren area (40 miles by 30 miles), the AEC is testing a nuclear rocket engine, Project Rover, and a nuclear ramjet, Project Pluto (so far non-explosively), is also using chemical explosives to make studies of craters. Since most nuclear authorities agree that any further bomb testing will be done underground...
...barren little Jordan, two-thirds of King Hussein's 1,600,000 subjects are Palestinian refugees who hold no love for the desert-born Hashemite dynasty. Half a million live in filthy camps and are grimly called "the King's immortal guests" because, to get more food rations, they register births but never admit to any deaths. They are fierce Arab nationalists, who tune in on Cairo's Voice of the Arabs and can stage a nasty riot. Last week Hussein risked their displeasure and defied his own royal relatives by taking a British bride...