Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the maudlin sentimentality with which our newspapers treated the demise of a man who occupied one of our Senate seats for eleven years, TIME'S account was like a breath of fresh, clean...
...Workman (C) led at the firing of the pistol. Wilberforce (C) then went to the front and stayed there for a mile and 2/3, when he dropped out on account of a stitch in his side...
...Standing alone, his notes would have been interesting and not very readable. But Viscount Alanbrooke has been lucky in having the help of Co-Author Bryant, one of the most readable historians now living (Unfinished Victory, The Age of Elegance). Bryant has written what is, in effect, a narrative account of the war that adroitly interpolates his hero's diaries and notes. But unlike Bryant's objective histories, The Turn of the Tide has an air of special pleading, works too hard at the job of building up Alanbrooke and low-rating those who, like General Marshall...
Perhaps the highest moment of her life came when she was presented to Victoria, Queen not only of England but of everything that Louise Mackay most admired. In Author Berlin's simple account of that occasion, two symbols can be glimpsed: the Kohinoor diamond on the Queen's breast and the Comstock Lode that had carried Louise to Buckingham Palace. The fabulous diamond and the fabulous silver mine, the power of empire and the American frontier thus met; they could scarcely be expected to understand each other, but their meeting nonetheless seemed to have about it a touch...
Some of Lorca's poetry in Poet in New York is very bad, partly because of the strange idiom he was working in, partly on account of his often-expressed desire to say something, to picture something, in a completely new, and preferably shocking, way. It is not so much that his metaphors and imagery slip out of focus, as Roy Campbell suggests, but they are sometimes strained and absurdly disjunct, unsequential and incoherent. Some of his worst lines, such...