Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sartre has written "Red Gloves" with an objective eye on the conflict between the two arguments represented by the assassin and the leader. It is not so tersely-written or compact a play as "No Exit", neither is it as outlandishly unrealistic and clumsy as "The Respectful Prostitute." Except for the sudden flaming-up of the love between the leader and the wife which seemed as if it had only just been scribbled on the margin of the script, M. Sartre has written a play that American playwrights could be well to study...
...this stripe have yet to articulate in compact, coherent fashion a conservative declaration of faith, and probably because of popular misconceptions concern- ing the meaning of conservatism, this is a job to be left to the professors. But their speeches and their votes indicate that they understand true conservatism and are prepared to work for it in practical ways--voting for extensions of social security, Federal aid to education, social development of natural resources. Instead of opposing all social legislation out of hand they are, most of them, always thinking up something new, using a new mechanism (i.e. the federal...
...introduced characters and forgot all about them, started exciting episodes and neglected to say how they turned out, and put in entire historical documents-such as the Mayflower Compact and the text of Roger Williams' defense of freedom of conscience. Otherwise, it is the story of the Windoms, Winshores, Winwolds and the rest; of scoffers and cynics doing the devil's business in Plymouth Colony; of divided loyalties in Revolutionary days; of great talkers, doers, doubters and drinkers in the days before the Civil...
...voluntary censorship, and it was ready & anxious to print any news it could get. In trying to cover the four-power talks on Germany, the foreign press corps in Moscow, now down to a corporal's guard, ran into a new kind of four-power agreement: an unbroken compact of silence. It led to some of the most frustrated reporting-and wildest guessing-since...
This new one-volume history of the American Revolution is as coldly dispassionate about a passionate subject as an indictment for murder. It is doubtful whether any other study of the revolution is at once so compact and so inclusive, or succeeds so well in avoiding the myths of the professional flag-wavers or the narrow materialism of the muckrakers...