Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stuyvesant Town "a caricature of urban rebuilding . . . considering all the benefits it might have derived from beginning at scratch, on a site as large as this." Snorted he: "As things go nowadays one has only a choice of nightmares. Shall it be the old, careless urban nightmare of post-Civil War New York ... or shall it be the new nightmare, a great superblock, quiet, orderly, self-contained, but designed as if the fabulous innkeeper Procrustes had turned architect-a nightmare not of caprice and self-centered individualism but of impersonal regimentation, apparently for people who have no identity...
...Hero." Two hours later, as a belt of pink light appeared around the edge of an umbrella-like overcast, MacWilliams spotted his first landmark-the Huai River, a glint of grey on a black ground. On the plain below, the first signs of China's civil war appeared. The orange flashes of shell explosions pocked the grey blanket of half light. Just south of Suchow's loess hills, five villages arched in a semicircle burned brightly...
Illness kept him out of the Civil War, deepening his depression. For years Parkman could sleep only two or three hours a night, could never work longer than two consecutive hours. He sat in the dark, with bandaged eyes, memorizing his chapters. He wrote with wires across the page to guide his hand, an average of six lines a day. When he went to France for treatment, physicians warned him that he would go insane if he continued to write. His wife and son died. He envied his fellow historian, William Prescott (also half blind), because Prescott, "confound him," could...
China's size and its lack of communication will mean a long and difficult task of reorganization for the Communists, says Fairbank. The Communists recorgnize this and it appears that they desire to gain power over China gradually in order to cope with civil problems...
...insistent drumbeat in the background was the threat of physical violence. Studio employees and motion-picture-machine operators joined his labor union-or else. Hollywood studio czars chipped in millions to stop the music -and keep their studios running. What finally "loused up" Willie was a big, quiet civil servant named Elmer...