Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...shipping, Hamburg got most of its business not from Germany (whose trade moved largely elsewhere, such as in the Rhine River system), but from the vast hinterland of Eastern Europe, via the Elbe. As far as its old trade is concerned, Hamburg is now on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain. Even if Hamburg had its old cargo to work, it lacks ships. The Potsdam Agreement took many of Germany's remaining ships as reparations...
What's wrong with the human face? Nothing, says Pablo Picasso, not a thing. Two eyes, a nose and a mouth are nice in themselves; furthermore it is great fun to add and subtract them, multiply and divide, maul, chop, smear, twist and shred them...
...operas of Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Verdi, Puccini. The greatest singers-Patti, Melba, Caruso, Chaliapin, Gigli-all graced its stage. From 1921 to 1929, under Arturo Toscanini, La Scala seemed to have reached a golden plateau. But last week even the proudest Milanese were admitting that something was very wrong with their great opera house...
...mend roofs, trudge through the mud and bargain at cattle auctions. In spring he played on a campus softball team known as Carman's Indians. He himself often wondered whether he was the type for "deaning." "Here," he once said of himself, "is a good dirt farmer gone wrong...
...bearer of his four children, and poverty a regular tenant in their tenement apartment, in this adaptation of Pietro di Donata's "Christ In Concrete." Miss Padovani portrays calm acceptance and dogged belief almost perfectly and Kathleen Ryan, as Wanamaker's mistress, symbolizes the world in which right and wrong give way to strong and weak. Mr. Wanamaker lets himself be torn in two between the philosophies admirably; his final decision brings the film's conflicts out with clarity and force...