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...From the bleak altiplano of Bolivia, the revolt of the traffic cops (TIME, Jan. 3) strutted out on a world stage. It sent a chill of apprehension throughout all Latin America. It scared the U.S. State Department into unseemly confusion. It even touched, lightly, the relations between Soviet Russia and the Americas...
...bleak Nanking headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Army, thin, razor-keen General Shunroku Hata was brightly confident. He boasted: "As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops." The year...
...leads. After that, Greer did walk-ons and held garlands in highly respectable and futureless productions of Shakespeare in Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. She was about to leave the theater a suicide note and go back to Commerce. But one night, while Greer was in the bleak gentility of The University Women's Club, high-glazed, handsome Authoress Sylvia Thompson (The Hounds of Spring) sauntered over and said: "I've been watching you all through dinner; are you by any chance an actress? It's ridiculous, I hardly know you; but I feel...
...last week were evacuating Berlin. Through the rubble-littered streets where gangs of workers dug in dusty ruins, past forlorn groups of people standing before bombed-out homes, drove radio propaganda cars, urging women and children to leave. The newspapers, on sale again in reduced format, gave the same bleak advice to all nonessential residents. Outside the city, in suburban recreation centers, thousands camped in tents or beneath the open sky, waiting for transport...
...Walsh Girls has been more highly praised than almost any first novel since Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel and Tess Slesinger's The Unpossessed. It deserves most of the good words given it. It suffers from the same bleak self-minimization that wounds the characters in the story and the town they live in, and the country of which it is part. Just as Lydia seems doomed to regard her life as dreary even when plainly it is not, so Author Janeway ruthlessly stamps out excitement and unexpected humor, like Miss Lydia keeping order in her classroom...