Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Europeans had a deep sense of the human import of the Philadelphia story. Wrote Rome's II Tempo: "What portends there-elephants, bands ... a gigantic circus? [It] is a manifestation of that peculiar exuberance typical of American democracy . . ." A more thoughtful analysis came from Britain's Rebecca West, who was covering the convention for U.S. and British papers, but even Miss West seemed a little out of breath. "I cannot see these demonstrations . . . these sudden bursts of songs and dance as undignified or irrelevant," she wrote. "That is what they used to do in the Middle Ages...
Once, 14 years ago, Chen wrote a poem which he thought would be his last. It was at night, deep in the Fukien mountains. Chen had been wounded; his troops were starving; he was surrounded by Nationalists. He saw no way out but suicide. Wrote the despairing general...
Getting the information was no airborne picnic. The planes that did the job were tough, night-fighting Black Widows. They "penetrated" 1,600 thunderclouds, often coming out with their noses deep-dented by hail. The worst gust encountered blew at 43 ft. per second (29 m.p.h.) almost directly upward. Said the pilot who flew through it: "The jolt was so severe I thought I had collided with another plane. I was unable to keep my hands on the controls, they banged around so much...
...said of Olivier's version-purely for the sake of argument-that it contains no single unquestionably great performance, but a complete roll call of fine ones; that it is worked out with intelligence, sensitivity, thoroughness and beauty; that it has everything which high ambition, deep sobriety and exquisite skill can give...
Respected Villain. Laski insists that he has written this book "out of deep love of America." He admits that the businessman's energy, skill and audacious vitality are (like the qualities of the best U.S. newsmen) "unsurpassed." He even concedes that the big businessman's faith in free enterprise is shared by such a large number of lesser U.S. citizens that labor has not even been able to build a political party worth the name. Therefore a successful anti-capitalist revolt is impossible unless the U.S. businessman is willing to lend a hand in arranging his own execution...