Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clive deserted the Church of Ireland (affiliated with the Anglican Church) for atheism. After a brief World War I career as a 2nd lieutenant in France, where he was wounded in the back by a British shell that fell short, Lewis graduated from Oxford with honors, tried a few years as a starveling poet, and in 1925 happily accepted his present post...
Vatican Praise. His only speech was brief, and competed with the distraction of a visit by Evita Peron. But his forthright explanation of why the U.S. has to put economic aid to devastated Europe ahead of help to Latin America, his emphasis on the individual as opposed to the state, won helpful praise from the Vatican, mollified the Latins, and marked a Rio turning point...
Final tribute to the memory of Dr. Elliott C. Cutler '09, Mosely Professor of Surgery at the Medical School, was paid by foremost figures in professional and public life in a brief Memorial Chapel ceremony last Tuesday afternoon...
...push-button perfection in which men have lost their souls. Says one inhabitant of this Utopia under the surface of the earth: "Those funny old days, when men went for a change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms!" But when another character gets a brief look at the earth's surface, with all its imperfections, he sums up the Forsterian point of view: "For the first time . . . I felt that humanity existed, and that it existed without clothes. . . . It was naked . . . and all these tubes and buttons and machineries neither came into the world with...
...book is a hellbox in a wider sense: about two-thirds of the stories record brief episodes of evil. O'Hara is an expert at ugly moments, probably the best expert in contemporary U.S. writing. Like many of his stones, these have such painful audibility that they make life itself seem an ugly moment unduly prolonged. The figures in his Inferno are mainly Broadway, Hollywood and resort people with a few professional criminals thrown...