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...stirring climax. Michele drives the gawking neighbors out of his cold-water flat after Annina's vision. During a religious parade, he is beaten and shackled to a steel fence in symbolic martyrdom. He stabs his mistress after she accuses him of incestuous love for Annina. In a bleak subway station, he curses Annina when she insists on taking the veil. And finally Annina becomes the bride of Christ in a chilling ritual...
...MacKenzie was permitted to take daily exercise with the three captured U.S. fliers. Although MacKenzie refused to say whether the U.S. prisoners had also been driven to sign confessions, he clearly implied that they had. Despite MacKenzie's release, the outlook for his former U.S. comrades is still bleak. The Chinese told them that they would be held until U.S. policy toward Red China is "right," MacKenzie said. "The Chinese are not too pleased about Formosa and not too pleased about...
...stone walls sweat with cold damp, and whose glinting sunlight fleetingly transforms forbidding rocks into some of the world's loveliest scenery. There are the English, who keep trying to treat Scotland as a conquered province instead of a proud nation. There is the grudging Scottish soil, whose bleak austerity breeds, by sheer force of survival, hardy sheep bearing wool that makes the world's finest tweeds. There is the Scottish economy, founded on ships and coal and heavy machinery, which, when depression hit, crashed with the thundering completeness of a toppling crane...
Pleistocene Minnehaha. Some 6,000 miles away, on a bleak, dry plain near Midland, Texas, the new-type scientific diggers got a full workout. Their problem was a broken-up skull, found 17 months ago by Keith Glasscock, an amateur archaeologist (TIME, July...
...expedition from the University of Pennsylvania found a big village of the shadowy Dorset people on bleak Melville Peninsula. The 208 rectangular houses, some of them 40 ft. long, are arranged in parallel rows for about a mile along the shore. The walls and roofs are gone, but the depressed floors remain. From under the dirt came nearly 3,000 tools, weapons and art objects. The Dorset people apparently had no boats, but they did have sledges which must have been pulled by humans, rather than dogs, because the Dorset dogs were too small for mushing...