Word: arched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machinery during the next five years of reconstruction. But neither their leaders nor the man on the Clapham omnibus, however much their nation needed the dollars, liked the terms on which it got them.. Those at the top did not want to face an uncertain free-trade future. Arch-Imperialist Robert Boothby had orated in the Commons debate: ". . . One mandate which His Majesty's Government never got from the people . . . was to sell the British Empire for a packet of [American] cigarets." The man in the street cared less for Empire than for a prideful feeling that Britain...
...looking forward to reading Remarque's new book, Arch of Triumph, but I don't suppose I shall like it, because it is indignant. Everyone's indignant about something nowadays...
Frida Laski, wife of arch-Socialist Harold, agreed with people who thought he ought to be out of the Labor Party chairmanship. Said she: "It's about time we had a happy home life free from politics." But she wanted him at least to run for re-election to the executive committee at next spring's Party Congress, for if he didn't "then Lord Beaverbrook would be very happy, and I don't want that to happen...
...Author Remarque wrote the great popular novel about World War I. In it the dead of Europe's vast battle graveyards first found their voice. It was written with deep compassion and the sad but tough-fibered cynicism with which compassion deflects the battering blows of the world. Arch of Triumph is no All Quiet on the Western Front. The compassion is still there; the cynicism has deepened. The craftsmanship is expert...
...Arch of Triumph is chiefly the love story of this sadly cynical surgeon and a bit of international flotsam named Joan Madou. It is also a story of the vicissitudes of the emigres and Ravic's murder of the Gestapo chief who had tortured him in Germany. The story of the emigres succeeds because of its tough, bold, unsentimental treatment of vast pathos. The story of Ravic's revenge succeeds because of Novelist Remarque's skill in presenting a cunning, brutal murder as an act of justice. The love story fails because Joan, an unpleasant character...