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...press specifically, Field Marshal Smuts added these words: "You gentlemen of the press of the United States have a greater responsibility than any human beings have ever carried. You are the guides of the people and your responsibility is to lead them aright. See that they keep the flame burning, that they will be ready to meet any emergency that may arise...
...from Navy men to Communist-fronters. This hostile sentiment on personal rather than professional grounds was never founded on rational analysis. Nevertheless, it remained one of the emotional realities of the Pacific war to the end. Last week, when the MacArthur candidacy was announced, it flared up into fresh flame and attracted more press attention than the political cheers for the general...
Lamont workmen used blowtorches. Mayor Curley used MIT's flame, throwers, Boston used every available street cleaner and a condescending reporter from the Globe. The railroads used well-paid volunteers from Harvard...
...Mosquito fighter-bomber, landing, had crashed into a parked Dakota, transforming both into a ballooning cloud of orange fire and black smoke. Out of the cloud ran the pilot, streaming flame, to shrivel and die before their eyes. At that moment Forrester realized an important fact. Ever since he had lost his wife in a bomb blast in London he had been trying coldly to get himself killed in combat. Now he knew that he didn't, after all, want...
...neurotic sense of "loneliness . . . failure and pathetic incompetence." When inspired, "almost all creative writers have at some moments of their lives been panic-stricken by the conviction that their imagination was getting the better of their reason. . . . The God visits them, not amicably, but in a flash of flame and fire." In Shakespeare's phrase: "Such tricks hath strong imagination...