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Cairo, Singapore and Australia, the citation said, "were remarkable for their ac curacy and their courage." After giving the audience (on the Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria) a little col or on the sinking of the Repulse -the orange-bright explosions of Jap torpedo planes above the calm blue China Sea - greying Cecil Brown remarked: "I think it ... brings more grey hairs to your head to resist the pressures ... of offi cials. . . ." The award to Brown reflected rightful honor on U.S. radio newshawking abroad, which reached its peak in 1941. Other awards showed an equal sense...
Josephus and the Emperor takes the inevitable tragedy a step further, tells what happens when an antiSemitic, Romanizing Emperor, the Lord and God Domitian (Dominus ac Deus Domitianus, "D.D.D." to his friends), destroys the very basis of Josephus' verbal internationalism, destroys his prestige, his son, his life. At last the broken and aging Jew, thrown back on simple nationalism, is killed in Judea by ignorant Roman horse troopers while he is trying to reach a band of Jewish rebels like those he repudiated in his youth. He is buried in his native earth, but his grave is unknown. Paradoxically...
...furnace is simple-it is merely a transformer whose core (or "secondary") is replaced by the metal "charge" to be heated. The coiled wires surrounding the charge carry alternating current, usually of high frequency-changing the direction of its flow not 60 times a second (as in ordinary household AC) but several thousand times a second. As the secondary current induced in the metal charge stabs back & forth, the metal's resistance creates great heat. A small box-shaped furnace (using 600 kilowatts) will melt a ton of steel an hour all day long-a rate of production much...
...attacked joint British-U. S. hopes: "They say Italy will fall away. . . . They have viewed German-Italian relations ac cording to their own standards. When one democracy helps another it demands some thing - military bases or something that it then retains. ... Il Duce and I are neither Jews nor opportunists. When we shake hands it is the handshake of men of honor...
...sentimentality and political obtuseness. Sentimentality makes him glorify the most ill-natured, suspicious, truculent crowd among the Internationals - the Communist diehards. Politi cal opacity makes him bat around franti cally trying to rationalize the Russian Purge when it begins to disrupt the Inter national Brigades, leads him to an ac quiescence that would be dishonest if it were not merely smug...