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...Afterglow. The problem, in Schlesinger's view, involves more than the Civil War alone. It "raises basic questions about the whole modern view of history ... I cannot escape the feeling that the vogue of revisionism is connected with the modern tendency to seek in optimistic sentimentalism an escape from the severe demands of moral decision...
...revisionists": "We have here a touching afterglow of the admirable nineteenth-century faith in the full rationality and perfectibility of man; the faith that the errors of the world would all in time be outmoded ... by progress. Yet the experience of the twentieth century has made it clear that we gravely overrated man's capacity to solve the problems of existence...
...enjoy hissing the villain. Those who used to be too excited to hiss, and who wildly applauded Pearl's always predictable but always miraculous escapes, will feel there is a good deal missing. The chances are that Pearl herself, with her prominent film career and her long, sporting afterglow in Europe, was a much more interesting woman than is suggested in this movie. It is also possible that a movie which showed the making of those first, primitive flickers as it really happened would be good for a lot more than a cheerful jeer...
...troubled sky of a world at peace, the awful afterglow of the atomic bomb still lingered. Just before leaving for London, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes sharply castigated loose talk that the U.S. might give away the secret (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In London, however, there was persistent cackle about placing the bomb at the disposal of the United Nations Security Council, to threaten or punish an errant nation-while keeping the actual technique an Anglo-U.S. secret as long as possible...
Round 1. In Western Europe liberation had been a joyful binge. Now Europe had a hangover. In Brussels, as in Paris, there was still an afterglow of liberation gaiety-but it was forced. Belgians needed food, clothing, fuel. Transport was paralyzed. This week the Allied High Command began diverting 200 tons of food daily for 20 days, to help meet Belgian needs. It would bolster, it might save Premier Hubert Pierlot's Government. But in Belgium, as in France, Communism had grown and hardened under the Nazis. Belgian Communists sternly charged Pierlot's Government with inefficiency. Said London...