Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall order; but anything less might well turn the Marshall Plan's success into fatal failure...
...read Reel's book (it was sent to them by the U.S. publishers) to assure that some day, when the Occupation withdrew, it would emerge from censorship. Then, instead of heightening respect for American good faith and readiness to acknowledge a wrong, The Case of General Yamashita might engender a bitter disillusion...
...Karen question might have been settled peaceably last year if both sides had shown a little more trust, cooperation and coolheadedness. "The trouble with us," said Socialist U Kyaw Nyein (who became a cabinet minister at 32), "is that we are all young and inexperienced." Finance Secretary U Kyin echoed him: "We are free but we don't yet know how to rule ourselves...
...Place of Patrons. It was a show calculated to arouse the same "strong attack of nostalgia" that had inspired Rathbone to stage it. To conservatives who might question the art quality of the packet-boat china, menus and bills of lading that Rathbone had interspersed among the river canvases, Showman Rathbone had a commonsense reply: "The first job is to get the people into our museums. The future of art belongs to them and not to the recherche group of the last century. The age of the private patron is gone, and the mass support required to take its place...
...commission's chief criteria had been "durability, dignity and beauty." There was no denying that the monuments they decided upon were on the conservative side. More modern ones, lacking classical associations, might have seemed to lack dignity as well. Among the best-planned and least assuming of those on exhibition was the Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith project for Hamm, Luxembourg, which provided for an ungadgeted chapel and a well planned area for memorial services. The monument that Holabird, Root & Burgee had designed for Henri Chapelle, Belgium was more dramatic, but its forbidding stone facade with 14 rectangular columns...