Word: erupts
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Gravid Times. Von Doderer knows his city intimately and writes of a time when that city was politically gravid. Yet his people have virtually no political awareness. The two political riots in the book do not grow out of the book, they erupt into it. In fact, Von Doderer's judgment on his people may be that, ignoring the urgencies of their time, they failed to safeguard the best things in it. But half a million is a lot of words in which to make that point obscurely. One wag has dubbed the book "the Ninth Symphony of Viennese...
After a summer devoted to the dolce vita, volcanic Soprano Maria Callas, 37, prepared to erupt for the first time before the cameras. Reportedly bankrolled by her great and good friend, Maritime Moneybags Aristotle Onassis, Maria is planning to make a film version of one of her most successful operatic roles, Cherubini's Medea. Setting: Milan's La Scala, not far from the courtroom where Maria's estranged husband, Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, avowedly plans to enliven an upcoming legal separation trial with an angry aria on La Callas' "wanton search of happiness that she should...
...Press Officer Lincoln White reported that "unwarranted repression" was being employed in Ciudad Trujillo "against anyone who is felt to be not loyal to the regime." Pointedly, he opened the possibility that U.S. forces, already gathering in the Caribbean, might move in to protect U.S. lives "should this situation erupt...
...little man who lives alone on the moon, counting craters, drop-kicking rocks and looking for something to believe in. He tries believing in himself, then in rocks, finally in craters. But all this is inadequate. At last he notices space, and decides to believe in that. Then rockets erupt from Earth. At first George is happy; he will have friends, and be the greatest moon expert in the universe. But inevitably, doubts sneak up. Earthmen will patronize him, and give him their bags to carry. Whipping himself into a meaningless fury, he decides to fight...