Word: insights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cover) Postwar planners for whom only the sky is the limit serve a great purpose. They point to the truth that Peace on this planet is indivisible. They reflect the foresight-and the insight-that some day (100 or 1,000 years from now) the human race is likely to order its affairs as one big family, happy or quarrelsome...
...miles from Massacre Bay to Chichagof Harbor, on bleak and barren Attu, are a five-hour walk. Covering this distance in the wake of the Japs' last stand at the end of May, TIME, Correspondent Robert Sherrod gained a gruesome insight into the nature of the enemy in the Pacific. In a two-mile stretch there were 800 Japanese dead. Many of them had killed themselves. Reported Correspondent Sherrod...
Tableau. If some way of bridging the gap between relief and investment can be found, and if certain prevalent U.S. attitudes can be modified by a growth of insight, then it is possible that the new age begun by Britain in the 19th Century can be continued and strengthened by the concurrence of the U.S, and others. For the British Navy and extraterritoriality in this economic order it will be necessary to substitute collective military security and, perhaps, an international circuit court of appeals. And for gold, to substitute an international reserve bank. For free trade, a tariff structure exposed...
...interdependence force upon the future progress of the world. Willkie declares that the advance of one nation is the advance of all nations, that the United States and Britain must turn their attention to China, the Middle East and those undeveloped regions, wherein Willkie, with business acumen and political insight, sees the great possibilities for world progress. Willkie calls for a truly global council to replace narrow Anglo-American planning. And Willkie, impressed and reassured by the spectacle of the U. S. S. R., praises Russia because "it works" and urges cooperation with the Soviets...
Opening in Stockholm last month, John Steinbeck's anti-Nazi, inferentially Norwegian The Moon Is Down proved such a smash that it speedily moved to a bigger theater. Swedish critics, speaking of evergrowing Norwegian resistance, praised Steinbeck for prophetic insight, remarked that The Moon Is Down is truer today than when it was written...