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Apart from such matters, there remains the remoteness of Mary's subject and theme. A 1924 Berlin boardinghouse full of colorful Russian émigrés simply does not have the broad appeal of Hotel. And your hero, who has been forced to flee Russia, where he apparently enjoyed a privileged life, is not likely to attract much sympathy today...
...Sudetens who wished to be German to remain in Czechoslovakia?" One year later, he came to the realization that, as he put it, "Hitler does not negotiate with nations which have submitted to him. He destroys them." By then it was too late. Daladier attempted to flee to Africa to join the Resistance, was captured by Vichy collaborationists and deported to Germany...
...hillside house near the town of Jamul, east of San Diego, watched the distant flickerings with little concern, then took some relatives out to dinner. Just before 6 the next morning, a group of hippies from a commune farther down the mountain roused Greene and warned him to flee...
...majority of the people in his kingdom are potential antagonists, and a sizable portion of his country is in Israeli hands. During the fighting in Amman, the 34-year-old monarch kept a helicopter standing by at Al-Hummar in case he lost the battle and was forced to flee after 17 years on a troubled throne. In the days to come, Hussein may regret that he never gave his pilot the order...
...mere accident that Pusey is a devoutly religious man. His dreams are the legitimizing abstractions that have traditionally allowed intellectual men of faith to feel good about their lack of involvement with the world. The world is miserably dirty and oppressive. The choice is whether to flee that reality, or give oneself to trying to change...