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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied armies had assaulted the coast. Phase 2 ended when the beachhead was firmly established. In Phase 3, Lieut. General Omar Bradley's First U.S. Army enveloped and captured the port of Cherbourg. Not until Cherbourg fell could General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Allied ground commander in France, begin Phase 4: the crashing drive into the vitals of the enemy...
Tank Match. Now, even before Cherbourg's port was restored, the Allied armies had enough power piled up to begin an offensive in the Second Army's sector. They drove head-on into the Germans. British and Canadian infantry, following up the tanks, pushed their lines forward until Caen was encircled on three sides and the highways and railroads to the north and southwest of the city were...
Much of the trouble with "Guest in the House" lies in its self-conscious dialogue. Last night the players seemed to feel that the burden of the play was on them and that they had to give something to the dialogue that just wasn't there to begin with. There was too much straining for the significant gesture and the meaningful phrases, resulting in the loss of much of the easy humor in the opening scenes...
...Sometimes, despite a surplus of power, a plane in a dive can go no faster and may actually begin to lose speed...
...wavering with the motion of the water, and terrifyingly close, loom the upper floors of bleak Norman seaside houses. The barge opens its mouth. Not in a neat, eager, clattering rush as people have sometimes imagined, but wretchedly, one by one, crabwise the crouching men disembark, hip-deep, and begin to wade ashore. Their officer, at the blunt bow, stands erect and unprotected. As, one by one, he gestures his men forward, he is almost smiling...