Word: daggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dagger with Talent. Out of his revolutionary adventuring, Malraux forged his novels and his ideas. The 1933 publication of La Condition Humaine (a bestseller in the U.S. under the title Man's Fate) broke upon the intellectual world like a revolutionist's bomb. Its theme was the 1927 revolt of the Chinese Communists in Shanghai, when they tried to wrest the city from foreign control, only to die when Chiang Kai-shek turned on them and bloodily suppressed their strike. Its intellectual revolutionists spoke of revolution as lyrically as a mystical communion, a tragic but glorious experience which...
...parts: he 1) set the boundaries of Italy just about where they are today, 2) was responsible for the Julian calendar of 365 days, 3) brought France into the 'community of nations and fixed the civilization of the Mediterranean world into the mold which still contains it. The dagger-wielding son of his onetime mistress to whom he gasped "Et tu, Brute" may have been the noblest, but Caius Julius Caesar was certainly the biggest Roman of them...
...that launch'd a thousand ships?" Shakespeare echoed him (in Troilus and Cressida) with "She is a pearl,/ Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships." But Hoffman also lays down scores of absurdities which parallel nothing but his own wishful thinking, e.g., "Here is my dagger" (Marlowe); "There is my dagger" (Shakespeare). Nor does it ever occur to him that certain elemental ideas have struck almost every poet who ever lived, e.g., that rain may be described as Heaven's weeping, that fast-beating hearts are like hammer blows, that lovers long before the Elizabethan...
There has come to my attention a copy of a letter addressed to you from Herbert A. Philbrick, erstwhile informant for the FBI and currently cloak-and-dagger columnist for the New York Herald-Tribune Syndicate. . . The Philbrick letter, stylistically, appears to be irony, though with somewhat less deft a touch than one likes to see. This is said not by way of criticism--even Swift produced some lemons in his time--but as explanation of the possibility that I might have have misinterpreted Mr. Philbrick's intent. As it stands, the inferences appear to be two: (a) that because...
...only a short stroll across what used to be the family vegetable garden to the new museum. Ike spent an hour looking at the mementos of his own life (everything from a TIME cover portrait to war souvenirs). Pausing before a jeweled dagger given him by Russian Marshal Zhukov, he remarked that it had been a "very great personal honor; when a marshal takes off his ceremonial dagger and gives it to you, that's something." Next day the Eisenhower family went to the Abilene cemetery to look at the graves of the President's parents. David Jacob...