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...books Nehru revises Voltaire's famous sarcasm (if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him): if God did exist, it would be necessary not to worship...
Tell the People. The G.O.P.'s best speechmakers fanned out across the nation. Bob Taft talked of the new "appeasement." Said he: "It would be hard to deliberately invent a more disastrous series of policy moves than this Administration has adopted during the past 18 months." Dirksen saw MacArthur's firing as a victory for Great Britain, and the State Department as "a branch of Downing Street." Far out in right field, Joe McCarthy announced in Milwaukee that the recall was "a Communist victory won with the aid of bourbon and Benedictine." Of Harry Truman he said...
...gambler, and "gambling, like bridge, is always an example of intelligence unfocused." As a detective he challenged the world to invent codes he could not decipher...
Americans did not invent the art of guerrilla war, but they were once very good at it. U.S. military history is studded with great guerrilla names-General Francis Marion ("the Swamp Fox"), who fought hit & run campaigns in the Carolinas and Georgia in the American Revolution; Captain John Mosby, Confederate raider in Virginia and Maryland; General John Hunt Morgan of Alabama.* In World War I, when mass production and massed firepower became an overriding factor, Americans lost interest in the art of making much of little. In Korea, the U.S. is being forced to rediscover the lost...
...themselves "nature's screetures." Pogo himself is a wide-eyed, naive little possum, and his pals include a raffish, cigar-smoking alligator named Albert; Porky Pine, a gloomy realist; Churchy LaFemme, a turtle and a reformed pirate captain; Rowland Owl, a nearsighted, pseudo-scientist who once tried to invent an "Adam Bomb"; a prideful hound named Beauregard Bugleboy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, conversing in a vaguely Southern dialect that drips with puns and nonsense verse: "Oh, the parsnips were snipping their snappers/ While the parsley was parceling the peas...