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After reading your article on what the U.S. is spending on NORAD and the DEW line, wouldn't it be more appropriate to call the whole system the American IMAGINOT line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...rare heroes. O'Casey can also bring himself to toss a rhetorical posy: "Oh, Shaw, there is not your equal now! When shall we see your like again!" A roguish wordmonger, O'Casey peppers each page with Joycean puns and wordplays, e.g., Tea Deum, imaginot line, the rust was silence. Ever the dramatist, O'Casey savors his exit with ..a tender salute to old age and a last toast to life: "The sun has gone, dragging her gold and green garlands down . . . Soon it will be time to kiss the world goodbye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: O'Casey at the Bat | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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