Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heiden's new book is the Book-of-the-Month-Club's choice for February. It is a scrambled, 774-page history of Naziism and its principal characters from the earliest beginnings to the Purge of 1934, a biography of the Führer, a study of Germany...
Nelles brought to Canada the Dominion's first two really modern (British-built) destroyers in 1932, next year became the first Canadian to wear a captain's stripes in his own country's service. In 1934 he was Commodore and Chief of the Naval Staff. Peace-minded...
"The attitude of the Command must [also] be taken into consideration. The Army Air Forces is a highly publicity-minded outfit. . . . The musical play, Winged Victory, is proof. ... So is the efficient and outsized . . . A.A.F. publicity bureau. Result: a mort of publicity and medals. . . . One not-too-prominent Army pilot...
The Book. The 59 chapters that make up the two parts of Work and Play are slower going than the previous books. The France that they describe has come out of World War I without knowing how deeply its strength has been sapped. In some ways it is healthier: the...
Gustave D ore's Inferno has been the standard visualization of Hell ever since 1861. For graphic-minded moderns, as for Victorians, the illustrations have three sure-fire hellfire appeals: they tell the story, make a clear moral point, radiate the literal horror of a waxworks.