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...comparison between the Biblical Joseph and a truly great Democrat of the 19305 was made by the late Thomas Mann. They do not seem to know that Joseph the Provider, although planned in the 19203 in Germany, was finally written during the early 19405 in California, as a discreet tribute to F.D.R. and the New Deal [TIME...
...Joseph said unto Pharaoh . . . look out a man discreet and wise . . . and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine...
United Nations intervention, however, must take a discreet form. For one thing, the troops should come largely from nations which would not appear to the Arabs as representative of Western colonialism. Members from the Asian bloc, such as the Philippines, would be convincing. The border guard need not be a large force, for its purpose would be to stop the small day-to-day aggressions...
...sale of Van Eyck's Madonna to the Frick Collection, he was pledged to secrecy for six months; within a matter of days, however, the big deal was the talk of 5 7th street. When an antique dealer accused him of blabbing about their business deals, Heinemann, a discreet man, indignantly denied the charge. "Well," he quoted the antique dealer as saying, "Rouseck at Wildenstein asked me why I was getting all those old paintings from you-said they had better ones at Wildenstein." Rouseck denied any knowledge of three wiretaps that were discovered on the outgoing lines...
...reckoned that the Russian explosion took place in Eastern Siberia or in the Gobi desert. British scientists guessed that its intensity was in the neighborhood of 15 megatons (the most recent U.S. blast at Bikini is usually estimated at between ten and 20 megatons). Excited newspaper headlines (and some discreet Communist prodding) led fainthearts and opposition parties in most of the affected nations to demand an immediate stop to all atomic tests everywhere. Yet even in France, where the wails were loudest, the most intense concentration of radioactivity was ar below the top level that human beings can tolerate. Said...