Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torpedoes, could not dodge two others. Three bombs also hit her. Nevertheless her crew took aboard most of her planes, had three fires under control and another nearly out when an internal explosion (apparently of escaping gasoline fumes) rent the Lexington. At 5:07 p.m., her commander, Captain Frederick Carl Sherman (since promoted to Rear Admiral), gave the sailor's saddest order...
...Harvard's Professor of Government Carl Joachim Friedrich who in Common Sense last week ripped into the whole idea of "indoctrinating" people with hatred or anything else. Wrote Dr. Friedrich, developing a theme he expressed last year as "losing the war by propaganda": "We need no Goebbels. . . . Can the methods of a Goebbels fashion the mind of a new democracy? One consideration that suggests a ministry of propaganda to its proponents is the fact that we had a Committee on Public Information in the last war. . . . The Creel Committee, as it was known, has been studied thoroughly. But from...
...Thomas Piacenza) Benton, took up the recorder. Benton put thumb tacks in the hammers of his piano to give it the proper twang. Friends and musicians began to come around to listen, laugh and join in-among them Singers Frank Luther and Carson Robison, Composers Henry Cowell and Carl Ruggles...
...Carl Hasselmann and his sister Ellie, provincial, supersensitive Americans, dwell in the uneasy revulsions of a sort of spiritual incest. They represent, respectively, the frigid, inhumane predicament of mind-without-spirit and the equally suicidal predicament of spirit-without-mind. Carl's mental drive stretches him flat on the altar he has built before a hypnotic social theorist. Ellie is impelled to sacrifice herself to the "resurrection" of an aging, rich sophisticate. The earlier phases of these relationships are ground out with a skillful, meat-grinder tenacity worthy of tougher meat...
...mental talk runs, for a full page, like this: "No, wait, wait for me. Do not leave me among old injustices and unanswered calls. Hold me, bear me up lest my hand, trailing back through fathomless water, encounter a dead man's face." Rather more successful is Carl's image of Ellie: "Oh, she is mad ... she veers like an abandoned ship on wild water by night, all sails down, and the wheel spinning first left, then right, and rats pattering over the empty decks, and one bell ringing constantly through chaos, a bell still saying loudly, love...