Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the war began, Romains had finished eight volumes of his novel (16 in the French edition). Published in December 1939 was Verdun, a merciless account of World War I slaughter, and a harrowing picture of inhuman French officership...
...Gave the Pacific War Council its first star-performer account of the Cairo and Teheran conferences...
Deeply distrustful of propaganda wizardry at home, Hoyt raised hell, sometimes in public, with that school of governmental thought that wants to manipulate the people into "war awareness." His prescription: just give them a play-byplay account of the real war, as swiftly, as honestly, and as completely as legitimate security reasons permit. He succeeded conspicuously in the days of Tarawa. But this was still the exception emphasizing the questionable rule that, for instance, was applied to the Bari disaster: to resent rather than encourage the people's desire to participate in the ups & downs of military operations...
...Time for Play. A doubly censored look at Japan came from thin, nervous Lilly Abegg, a German newswoman in Tokyo. The Berliner Börsenzeitung recently printed her account of wartime Japan...
Psychic Suicide. Elsie Venner is Holmes's most interesting and hardest case. Holmes's analysis of her "psychic suicide" is a model of modern psychiatric thinking. His account of her symptoms (a stiff, frozen demeanor, withdrawal into herself, occasional wild behavior) was a precise description of schizophrenia-though the word and disease were unknown in Holmes...