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...crescents and triangles, resembled an explosion in a kaleidoscope factory. Abstractionist Miro had littered potato-sack burlap with insectile, wire-worky lines, spots and doodads. Miro's titles were less abstract than his pictures. Samples: A Drop of Dew Falling from the Wing of a Bird Awakens Rosalie Asleep in the Shade of a Cobweb; Women Greeting the Crescent of the Moon; Personages Magnetized by the Stars...
...invasion possibilities, the British had done some thinking there, too. They were not asleep on the beaches. London guessers saw three general aims of a direct attack on the islands: 1) disorganization of industrial Britain, 2) disorganization of Government 3) a stroke at national morale by land operations on London's outskirts. Most British were so confident of Britain's naval strength that they disallowed a seaborne blow at Eire, and thought that if there was to be attack on Ireland, it would be a violent airborne diversion. Similar diversions were to be expected at the Orkneys...
Three weeks ago it was clear that even hardheaded Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones was impressed. Dr. Hansgirg, asleep in his California home, got a 1 a.m. telephone call from Kaiser: get to Manhattan right away and start drawing up plans. In Manhattan a suite of offices was knocked together on the ninth floor of the RCA Building. There Dr. Hansgirg and Reilly started getting their plant on paper. Kaiser shuttled back and forth between the office and Washington, always a half-hour late for appointments that extended all the way around the clock. When the loan was finally approved...
...that boy, he's gone to sleep again." Dickens did not know it, but Joe was a victim of a rare nervous disorder known as narcolepsy* (from the Greek narke, stupor, and lepsis, seizure). When narcoleptics experience certain emotions -anger, fear, grief, amusement-they crumple up, fall sound asleep. Less than 100 cases have ever been reported...
Besides constant raids on Italian bases in Albania and on cities on the Italian mainland, the Eastern Fleet's naval planes in November pulled off the most dramatic single episode of the whole battle: Taranto. Catching a strong body of the Italian Fleet asleep at anchor, the British severely damaged three capital ships and two cruisers-giving Britain conclusive naval superiority in the entire Mediterranean, and thereby paving the way for another vital duty in the East...