Word: development
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Threat. The commissioners were not panic-stricken; they were measured and matter-of-fact. But the U.S. was under definite threat, they said. They saw no hope that the United Nations would develop "in time" the authority to prevent another war. The threat, they reported, could be divided into two parts. The first was Phase I, which was the turbulent present, when the world at any moment could blunder into war. If war came in Phase I, it would come by accident, not from design. No potential enemy of the U.S. was yet prepared for war. The commissioners found...
...where his father ran a dry-goods store. It was a brilliant family. His sister Miriam was a successful novelist. His brother Albert became one of the world's great physicists, whose measurements of the speed of light won him the Nobel Prize in 1907, and helped Einstein develop the theory of relativity. Albert once candidly remarked that Charley was the most brilliant of them...
...Bexar, both equipped for landing operations. The Marines took with them full combat equipment, including tanks, artillery, jeeps, trucks and flamethrowers. Speculation bubbled: where would the Marines land? Best guess was that they would not; that they would remain afloat, ready to take in hand small crises which might develop anywhere from Palestine to Genoa...
...placed in the capable hands of Robert Montgomery, a past cinemaster at leering and bloodletting. Montgomery handles the show's gory details as narrator. As occasional actor, he may recreate some of his grislier movie roles (Night Must Fall, Rage in Heaven). He thinks it should develop into "a damn good dramatic show. The full hour opens up a vista of new material that is fantastic, just fantastic...
Then came Wolfe's difficulties. As his thick flood of words rolled into his publishers' offices, there to be diked and channeled, it became clear that Wolfe would never develop any controlling ideas that could give esthetic unity or moral significance to his work...