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...opponent, Artemio Lobrin, had a Laurel-like grasp of politics himself; after all, he had once served as confidential secretary to Jose Sr. He immediately filed a complaint charging that Laurel supporters had torn up Lobrin ballots, falsified returns and intimidated voters...
...years. "Anybody else who treated Dillon, Read as a part-time job would have been a drag on us," recalls a partner in the firm. "But Douglas would sit down with all the documents of a transaction, and in 20 minutes he'd have a real grasp of the problem. It was incredible...
...garde Pole considered "one of the most controversial figures in contemporary music." Zak's "work" was a dreadful cacophony punctuated by rattles, bangs and random blows on a xylophone. Next morning the music critics passed learned if mystified judgment. Wrote the London Times: "It was certainly difficult to grasp more than the music's broad outlines, partly because of the high proportion of unpitched sounds and partly because of their extreme diversity." Agreed the Daily Telegraph: "Wholly unrewarding...
Addressing Filipino lawmakers later in the week, MacArthur indicated that he was still of the same mind. The failure of the United Nations forces to win the Korean war was "a major disaster for the free world," he said. "With victory within our grasp and without the use of the atom bomb, which we needed no more then than against Japan, we failed to see it through. Had we done so, we would have destroyed Red China's capability of waging modern war for generations to come...
...disike the habit of entrusting so much instruction to graduate students." But his strongest criticisms involved the lack of imagination among many graduate students, many of whom he found "prematurely old and cautious, as if they were absorbing the vices of academic life before they had a chance to grasp its virtues...