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Tito himself was busy being friendly with visiting Americans, and hoping thereby to impress Stalin that any aggression against Yugoslavia might be the spark for World War III. W. Averell Harriman, on his way home from Iran, stopped over at Belgrade. He and Tito agreed, said Harriman in the purposefully indirect words of diplomacy, that a principal danger of war would come from the possible miscalculation by the Kremlin of the West's reaction to local aggression...
...back in some places, fought hand-to-hand in others despite U.N. air, artillery, tank and naval gunfire. U.N. officers described it as a limited offensive "to straighten our lines and to prevent the enemy from observing the positions we currently hold." Another theory: that it was designed to impress Communists at Kaesong with what will come if peace talks fail...
...cross William Hogarth had to bear was that he simply did not impress his contemporaries as a serious painter. His colors were too fresh, his draftsmanship too free & easy, his characterizations too blunt and unflattering. When he held auctions of his oils in 1745 and 1751, the paintings he liked best were laughed at. Even the oil originals of some of his most popular engravings sold for little more than the price of their frames. Finally, in disgust and despair, he took down the shingle of his trade from his London house and retired to the country. He wrote...
Every hundred years, it appears, the British have a festival. One century ago they set up the Crystal Palace and opened it with a mighty singing of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. Crammed with inventions and works of art, the Crystal Palace managed to impress the contemporary world, and eventually inspire a traditional lecture at Harvard, Professor Owen's on the oddities of mid-Victorian taste. This year the British have an exhibition going again but it's unlikely that there'll be much fun making at its expense...
...China would lose little by the proposed embargo, since most U.N. member nations already bar the shipment of arms. But, said Gross: "We think this program will help impress Communist China and its supporters of the unity of purpose of the members of the U.N. . . . It might induce the Chinese Communists to negotiate...