Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was an open challenge to the Central Government. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek met Yenan's defiance with a crackling reassertion of his acknowledged (but nominal) authority over all China, Free and Communist. To General ChuTeh he wired: Communist forces "must remain in their posts and wait for further...
General Joseph Stilwell, asked by some visiting publishers on Okinawa what he thought the average G.I.'s war aims were, obliged by writing an (813-word) imaginary dialogue between a "Highbrow and a G.I." Asked about "the ideology behind the action," the G.I. responds: "The war started, and we...
Nichols further ventured that Duren should paint in a spirit which regards manure not as horrible filth but as a farmer's God-given instrument. Countered Duren: "I refer to [manure] but seldom. ... I regard it as neither horrific nor as beautiful but merely as unimportant detail. Obviously Mr...
Out of the Night (PRC Pictures), which suggests an infinitely diluted yet engaging version of Hamlet, is the story of an intelligent, intuitive youth (James Lydon), whose dreams cause him to suspect that his father did not die by accident. He further suspects that the man (Warren William) who is...
"I look upon the result," he concluded blandly, "as comfortable, but not splendid . . . and from the further shore I bid adieu to all who have cared to read any among the many words that I have written."