Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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EUROPEAN STOCK MARKETS are losing their bullishness. Value of stock on the Milan Exchange has declined 40% in past four months. Paris Exchange has slipped 10% since its 1960 high last August; London has retreated 12% from record peak. Only West German market is still strong, is expected to finish the year with stocks 29% above 1959. One result of the decline: less U.S. money and gold will go abroad...
...Latin tongue. The tone of the translation is innocently serious, childlike rather than childish, and its style is graceful and frequently inspired. Milne's names and phrases take on a rich new intonation in Lenard's Latin. Heffalumpum (for Heffalump) sounds like the name of a dirty German town transliterated by Tacitus, lor (for Eeyore) might be a monster out of a Persian legend...
...entire town, he does his part with no questions asked. Men, women and children are methodically shot down, the church burned with all who had gone there to seek sanctuary. To make his creaky plot hold together, Ustinov has Hans fall in love with a Florentine prostitute during the German retreat. When, quite out of character, he comes back to find her, he is sniffed out by the police and pursued as a war criminal...
...creating suspense, but it does give him a chance to do what he does best : hold up national types to clever, cynical scrutiny. His police colonel is cast as a stock Italian official, part scoundrel, part ingratiating humanist, both parts cemented by Machiavellian guile. The head of the German escape ring could be found in Central Casting along with all the lesser characters...
...THIRD REICH, by William L. Shirer. The most successful effort yet to get into one volume the grisly and disheartening history of Naziism, from the birth of its creator to his suicide in a Berlin bunker. In Hitler, argues Shirer with a wealth of supporting evidence, the German people got just what they wanted...