Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHIP OF FOOLS. Although Director Stanley Kramer has turned the allegorical Ship into a showboat, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner make good company for the long haul...
NEVER CALL RETREAT, by Bruce Catton. In this final volume of his centennial trilogy, Catton, deservedly the bestselling of Civil War historians, shows the South finally overwhelmed, and analyzes two great leaders: Lincoln, who resisted imposing vindictive penalties on the South, and Lee, who refused to initiate a guerrilla war in the Virginia hills, which could have bled the country...
What Shuman can claim overwhelming credit for is the defeat of the 1963 nationwide wheat referendum, which shook the Kennedy Administration to its socks. It was the Gettysburg of the war between farmer and bureaucrat-and Shuman was its General Meade. The referendum's Robert E. Lee was Willard Cochrane, then Freeman's director of agricultural economics, a tough-minded theoretician whose ideas proved politically unacceptable...
...same wisdom leads Catton to a singularly gentle conclusion about the war's finish and about those who lost. Lee might have commanded his men to melt into the hills, there to wage an endless guerrilla warfare that, in Catton's opinion, could have "ruined America forever." One of Lee's officers proposed this course, but Lee rejected it. Lincoln might have imposed vengeful terms on the defeated South...
...standard," writes Catton, "this was an almost unbelievable way to end a civil war, which by all tradition is the worst kind of war there is. Living for the rest of their lives in the long gray shadow of the Lost Cause, Lee's men were nevertheless going on toward the future. Pride in what they had done would grow with the years, but it would turn them into a romantic army of legend and not into a sullen battalion of death...