Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...German submarine crew and the fighting they have to endure-both against the enemy and against themselves. There are bad Nazis on board, but most of the crew are apolitical, beer-guzzling men of integnily who destroy boats because they are told to destroy boats. They don't enjoy it, and are just as atraid of being killed as the people they are trying to kill. When I saw the film last year, the tragic ending left the audience silem. The film added a corollary to Sherman's famous "War is hell" -it should be changed to "War is hell...
...quite enjoy a writer's work, if you turn the page approvingly yet' don't mind being interrupted, then you tend to like the author unthinkingly. Good chap, you assume. Sound fellow....But if you love a writer, if you depend upon the drip-feed of his intelligence, if you want to pursue him and find him--despite edicts to the contrary--then it's impossible to know too much. You seek the vice as well...
...rates have a history of fluctuating erratically. "The glittering American literary colony in Paris in the 1920s didn't go home because the wellsprings of creativity had dried up," he observes. "It was because the exchange rate shifted after 1929 and suddenly Paris wasn't cheap anymore. Americans should enjoy this city while they...
...rates have a history of fluctuating erratically. "The glittering American literary colony in Paris in the 1920s didn't go home because the wellsprings of creativity had dried up," he observes. "It was because the exchange rate shifted after 1929 and suddenly Paris wasn't cheap anymore. Americans should enjoy this city while they...
...same time, support for anti-Communist insurgencies has its limitations. As Nicaragua makes clear, the U.S. is still incapable of waging truly covert warfare of any magnitude. In this respect, the Soviets enjoy a permanent advantage. The First Chief Directorate of the KGB, the principal clandestine arm of Soviet foreign policy, can engage in dirty tricks while preserving its "plausible deniability." The CIA's Directorate for Operations, by contrast, is subject to oversight by a notoriously leaky and fastidious U.S. Congress...