Word: bread
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...African village; the second, aged tribal chieftains dressed in colorful native costumes, bending over simple textbooks in an outdoor classroom. A third picture shows an Oriental girl, her jet black hair cropped to look like an overturned bowl, gazing suspiciously at a glass of milk and a piece of bread placed before her on a gay print tablecloth. The fourth picture is of two tiny children. Their hands are gripping a wooden railing of some sort, and their eyes are open wide, fascinated by something to the right, outside the picture...
There was no evidence of a critical food shortage in Dresden, but prices were high, and distribution problems were evident everywhere. One store would have an oversupply of bread, another none. Eggs were practically nonexistent, butter rationed and scarce. "We have a joke here," said a farmer. "Do you know the difference between an atom bomb and a collective farm? None. Both completely lay waste to the earth...
Dolores Hart, an actress whose round face seems to have been cut from moist white bread, contributes to this weirdly unanimous good will as St. Clare, founder of the women's branch of the Franciscan order. She giggles. All of this is understandable, being the result of a general lack of competence. What is baffling is the film makers' failure to include what should have been the movie's boffo scene. These men bear watching; thinkers who leave out of a life of St. Francis the story of his preaching to the birds and "making the swallows...
...Quetzalcoatl. Outraged Aztecs set upon the blasphemer and his descendants the curse of undying lust. Telling of it, one weary descendant, a rancher who at 67 requires the constant attention of 18 concubines, "seemed to collapse within himself. His face was newly dented with grief like a loaf of bread a giraffe has kneeled upon...
Style for Its Own Sake. The pattern of what Alberto Moravia aptly calls Hemingway's "ingenuous nihilism" was early set, but even Hemingway could not sustain himself on nada, or on bread alone. If life was a short day's journey from nothingness to nothingness, there still had to be some meaning to the "performance en route." In Hemingway's view, the universal moral standard was nonexistent, but there were the clique moralities of the sportsman or the soldier, or, in his own case, the writer. So he invented the Code Hero, the code being "what...