Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rows on the floor of the shed. I remember men, women & children running in all directions, colliding, pushing, returning to where they started, and sweating gendarmes guarding the pit gates against the shrieking, weeping, hysterical crowd which knew that hundreds of its menfolk were condemned to slow death, entombed beneath the earth...
...stood in the 4th Marine Division cemetery there, I mentally embraced the many mothers, fathers, wives and sweethearts of the many men buried beneath those crosses, and thanked God that at least one of us could be there to pay at least a humble tribute. I wished I could tell them that they need never worry about the care of their loved ones' bodies, for I, who am supposedly conditioned to the "exigencies" of the service and expecting much less, was surprised to find such well-kept cemeteries...
Some children call it "the dead zoo." Last week kids-and adults-saw a host of disembodied faces keeping company with its stuffed animals. In a dark hall of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, beneath the mottled, 76-ft. belly of a sulphur-bottom whale, the Museum had assembled and spotlighted some 200 masks from all over the world...
...much for the surface. Beneath the welter of detail of Hecate County life, beneath the venomous satire, Wilson has contrived a tight little allegory, set up against an inflexibly, moral Puritan standard that is reminiscent of Hawthorne. Although unlike Hawthorne Wilson has kept his story contemporaneous, the forces which compelled both men to allegorize are the same. Cut off from his Puritan heritage by the Romantic amoralism of the Transcendental movement which he distrusted and did not understand, Hawthorne dipped back into the seventeenth century. To Wilson, convinced that Western society is breaking up, appalled by Stalinism, the tensions...
...more than a temporary compromise. The report contained one long-range proposition that might well point the way to a solution: an internationalized Palestine under U.N. supervision. Inside the Holy Land, despite Jewish resentment and Arab demonstration, there were few signs of a major crisis. Whatever might be brewing beneath the surface, both Arabs and Jews seemed well aware that the issue would be settled outside the country...