Word: compassable
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...last entry (Zurich airport) in the book's splendidly detailed Encyclopaedic Index, this is the literary package best calculated to keep air-minded readers desk or rug-bound for weeks. What sets the book apart is not only how much it has packed into reasonably small compass, but the precision and beauty of its illustrations, including galleries of great flying machines from then...
Stone had a long and distinguished career on the great liberal dailies of the '30's and '40's. He was an editorial writer with Walter Lippmann on The New York Post, a columnist for PM and The New York Daily Compass, and the author of a number of books, including one on the birth of Israel for which he entered the pipeline of illegal Jewish refugees seeking entrance to Palestine and was imprisoned in a British detention camp...
...result of his defection, Stone found himself unprintable when The Compass folded in 1953. His colleagues had made their peace with the new American anti-communist line, compromised with McCarthyism and set about their job of ignoring the obvious and swallowing the spurious. There was no room in American journalism for a famous reporter who did not believe that truth changed with every committee hearing or State Department White Paper. Stone refused to be silenced: he took his $3500 severance pay and a Compass subscription list and set about creating a one-man weekly, with his wife, Esther...
...cadence-slow, methodical, studied. Says Gene Letourneau, a friend who sometimes hunts birds with him in Maine: "When Ed goes out in the woods, he is just as cautious as when he makes a big political decision. He wants to know where he's going. He always has the compass...
Hollywood usually gets its bearings from the weather vane rather than the compass. Since the wind has been blowing chilly from Indochina, a new movie or two have gingerly and unconvincingly suggested that America's flaws are innate rapacity and violence...