Word: departments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HAVE been amazed, and deeply concerned, since my return, to observe the extent to which the orientation of our national policy tends to depart from the traditional courage, vision and forthrightness which has animated and guided our great leaders of the past, to be now largely influenced, if not indeed an some instances dictated, from abroad and dominated by fear of what others may think or others may do. Never before have we geared national policy to timidity and fear...
...great danger that always faced the primitive in his loyalties lay in the very strength of his allegiance, that strength which kept the totem valid long after its vital life force had disappeared. The formal totem became so fixed that life could depart from it, yet its magic suffered not, for man breaks his ideals and his gods but reluctantly, and a dead and meaningless symbol is better than no totem at all. And the very enthusiasm with which the artificial loyalty is buoyed does hurt to the reality and the force of the totem, stifling it and distorting...
...that its original form was not the motion picture. You will find it hard to believe that the part of Bill Sikes was not undertaker's establishment at which Oliver is set to work ever existed as other than a set in the J. Arthur Rank studio. The movie departs from the original in many ways, as far as the plot is concerned. It is condensed, of course, and reshaped. But not once does it depart from the spirit in which Dickens wrote the novel...
...anyone in Washington knew what was up, MacArthur had flown to Korea and offered to meet the enemy commander to arrange a cease-fire in the field. MacArthur added an implied threat: "The enemy therefore must by now be painfully aware that a decision of the United Nations to depart from its tolerant effort to contain the war to the area of Korea through expansion of our military operations to his coastal areas and interior bases would doom Red China to the risk of imminent military collapse...
...enemy, therefore, must by now be painfully aware that a decision of the United Nations to depart from its tolerant effort to contain the war to the area of Korea through expansion of our military operations to his coastal areas and interior bases would doom Red China to the risk of imminent military collapse...