Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intention to withhold facts from the CRIMSON, but merely to present them at a time when, in conjunction with Provost Buck's statement of policy, they would give the undergraduate body the clearest picture of what is going on. . . Rov M. Goodman '51, Chairman, International Activities Committee Harvard Student Council
...Churchill's The Gathering Storm was the first dramatic volume of what promises to be a great history of the war and Churchill's stewardship. Best of such U.S. books was Dramatist Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, perhaps too worshipful of both men, but the clearest view yet of the war at the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin level. Overshadowed by these two, but important for the record, were The Memoirs of Cordell Hull and Henry L. Stimson's On Active Service in Peace...
...point is that Wood, like most authors who have something to write about, took the trouble to write is as simply and clearly as he could. Now if you happen to be James Joyce, and what you have to say is very special, then even the clearest way of saying it may not be at all easy to follow. The difficulty in Miss Handy's poem--which is its punctuaton--I now think to be this sort of necessary difficulty. But I will bet that Joyce and Miss Handy wrote as simply as their subjects permitted them to write...
...other book but the Bible (at least eight U.S. publishers have one or more editions currently in print).* It is a short book, simply written. Like the writings of the earliest Christians, it speaks directly to ordinary people, not merely to theologians or philosophers. It is perhaps the nearest, clearest answer that has been made to the simple question: how to be a Christian. In 15th Century Latin or in modern English, the words of Thomas à Kempis are unequivocal...
...Clearest instance of the picture's split personality is the work of Cameraman Ted McCord. Perhaps a third of his shots are as pure, subtle and powerful as the whole of his Treasure of Sierra Madre-i.e., as good as the best in movies. Perhaps a fourth are ornate salon stuff (gnarled trees in silhouette, etc.), often mistaken for Art. The rest is high-grade Hollywood sound stage. It is not hard to believe that one cameraman is capable of all three kinds, but it is hard to understand why a man capable of the best could willingly...