Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past few weeks this country has accustomed itself to the fact that we are technologically backward. I assume this will be properly investigated by the usual brass-bottom parties. But we are now faced with the fact that we are so inept and so ineffectual in the matter of public relations that we have advertised ourselves as dolts to the entire world...
...Washington, columnists called it "silly secrecy" when the government refused to clear a book written by a former Army intelligence officer about the intelligence service. It was a very funny matter when, even after the book had been cut to exclude references to every war since and including the American Revolution, it was still not approved. Gales of laughter went up at the story that the Pentagon would not tell how much peanut butter the Army consumed for fear such knowledge would give the Russians an indication of our manpower strength. But the "laughter has an echo that is grim...
...this is Christmas time, and it really doesn't matter. Of the lot, Parkinson is the only competent humorist, but nobody cares about this when purchasing a book to give to Aunt Sally. These books are all in some way "funny," and that is all that counts come Christmas...
...installment plan, and was hardly noticed until it was all over. The French Revolution was different: it created a deep fission in the French mind between traditional and supposedly progressive values, and left all questions unresolved. The revolution tended to be a permanent thing-an ideal, a matter for the future rather than a historical event. Its romance became a myth which grew to include other revolutions, notably the Russian, until at times the French cult of revolution seems "indistinguishable from the Fascist cult of violence." Enemies of the church, French intellectuals have hankered for a substitute religion and found...
...only present-day reviewer contagious enough for Knopf is the New York Times's notoriously Phelpsian Orville Prescott. Says Knopf: Prescott can "make them buy the book he praises. We would all benefit enormously were there a dozen like him. Whether they were sound critics wouldn't matter so much to the book trade-not to start with, at any rate...