Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reading as many papers as I do ... I have been tremendously impressed with the reactions of editors and critics to this remarkable film series. The men and women of LIFE and TIME have added new scope to General Eisenhower's great book and . . . they have given to all of us-the older generation, the young people of today, and our children tomorrow-a view of what millions endured during World War II. We whose sons were under fire in the war suffered enormous strain, but only now can we, through these films, really fully appreciate the burdens that...
...suffered a great defeat at the Kasserine Pass. Among the reasons General Eisenhower gave for this setback was the 'greenness' of our soldiers and leaders and the faulty information he had to base his decisions on. But the important thing was that General Eisenhower knew why we suffered that defeat. The point I'd like to make is that today, though the U.N. has not reached all its objectives, we, as well as much of the rest of the world, recognize those objectives. And we know that we are green, too-young in thinking in world terms...
There were several immediate questions to face: one was a British request for a greater exchange of classified atomic information with Great Britain and Canada. Another was that the British soon might demand a larger share of the crucial Belgian Congo uranium production, which is now shipped mostly to the U.S. The U.S. would probably have to reach some sort of atomic accord with Britain...
...years since James Joyce gave the world, in Ulysses, his great experiment in stream-of-consciousness writing. Baxter Bernstein not only recalls the horde of little streamlets that bubbled up in the master's wake but proves once & for all that though the great original is still alive and glowing, its imitations are only fit to be dropped thhhh into the cuspidor...
...Fence Me In. Foes of the beard have been sniping at it for thousands of years, heaping it with vulgarity and ridicule. When, says Reynolds, mustachioed Czar Peter the Great rebuked a Western ambassador for being effeminately clean-shaven, the envoy pertly retorted: "Had my royal master measured wisdom by the beard, he would have sent a goat." Peter, who had a marked tendency to kowtow before degenerate Western ways, was so impressed by this remark that he levied a tax on all Russian beards...