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...rubble-trains, prostitutes and patriots, eye and mind struggle to summon order and sense from disorder and madness; they seek for symbols. The great statue of Frederick the Great, still boxed in brick against bombs that have not fallen for three years-is this the city's sly hint of new German militarism waiting another chance? The great Soviet tank on the Potsdamer Chaussee, mounted on concrete-does it mean something that it faces out from the city, pointed westward? The American signs-are they unintentionally pointed in announcing: "Think, act, drive carefully-the life you save...
Over their coffee and pistolets (rolls), Belgians found no hint in their morning papers that anything special was in the air. But by evening of the next day, Premier Paul-Henri Spaak had resigned. Belgians were so bewildered that they called their first political crisis in over a year la drole de crise, as they had once spoken of la drole de guerre (the phony...
...attended the posh but chilly opening (there was a stokers' strike). The 68 oils and 76 water colors on exhibition brightened the gallery air and thawed most critics' reserve. "What other British artist of this generation," asked the Sunday Times, "could fill the Tate . . . without a hint of monotony?" Added the Spectator: "Perhaps the most consistently fine water colorist of the 20th Century...
...uncovered facts, but his methods did not go deep enough to show whether there is any relation between sexual activity and mental health. Dr. Eisenbud added darkly that some sexual events are so deeply buried that they are dug up only under psychiatric treatment. As for Kinsey's hint that there are no such things as normality or abnormality in sex: "nonsense...
...First hint of the change in policy came last fortnight when a government official handed out copies of a Prospectors' Guide for Uranium and Thorium Minerals in Canada. It told everything about hunting uranium in Canada except where to look...