Word: terrorisms
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...Through terror and darkness the sun shines today...
...Terror swept the Bessarabian plains, driving the peasant folk and bourgeoisie like leaves in a rising storm. The Red Army was less than 70 miles away and advancing westward from the Kiev bulge. Behind the crumbling German front, Rumania trembled...
...reasonable guess may be that Germany has developed a rocket launcher-perhaps something like an enlarged version of the U.S. Army's tank-busting bazooka-and hopes to use it, not for any futuristic terror bombing of London, but for a rapid-fire barrage of explosive projectiles against Allied invasion craft in the Channel...
Published last fortnight was The Terrible Gustave Dore (Marchbanks Press; $2.50), a thoughtful reflection on that "agreeable terror." It is an unpretentious, revealing study. By comparing his subject with the surrealists, Author Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, Manhattan teacher and bibliophile, deftly indicates the psychological sources of Dore's work. By recalling his lesser-known achievements in cartooning, the book rounds out the French giant of 19th-Century illustration for those who know him only in his solemn Inferno and Bible, farcical Rabelais and Droll Stories...
Died. Ida Minerva Tarbell, 86, crusading journalist, onetime "Terror of the Trusts" (The History of the Standard Oil Company); of pneumonia; in Bridge port, Conn. Daughter of a Pennsylvania oilman driven to the wall by the Rocke fellers, onetime seminary teacher Ida Tarbell gained fame for herself and thousands of new readers for McClure's with her 1896 serialized Life of Lincoln. In 1902-04 she helped bust the oil trust with a series of 19 McClure's articles; they brought in a gusher of public resentment that flowed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which...