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...letters he wrote at Yale and as a field artillery officer in France in 1918, a somewhat romantic earnestness begins to mingle with Ivy League wit. Though a little grating in tone, these letters provide some striking glimpses of nineteenth-century consciousness trying to make sense of the monstrous twentieth. "The thunderbolts of the King of Olympus were not more terrible." MacLeish writes, than his first view of modern warfare...
...this would enable the Government to begin to shrink its monstrous stockpiles, which now amount to a full year's domestic consumption of some grains, and, by Block's perhaps overly optimistic estimate, could save as much as $5 billion between now and fiscal 1985 in price-support payments and storage fees, which totaled $12 billion in the past fiscal year. Block also believes the plan would have a negligible effect on retail food prices...
Despite the coldly premeditated nature of the slaying, public sentiment in Cheyenne began shifting to the alleged killers as details about the Jahnke household emerged. Said Richard's high school ROTC instructor, Major Robert Vegvary: "Something monstrous and horrible must have happened at home." Indeed, to hear local residents tell it, something had. Though a devoted father, the elder Jahnke was described by those who knew him as an ultrastrict disciplinarian with an explosive temper that often boiled over into physical violence. He doled out severe beatings to his children for the most minor infractions; his Puerto Rican-born...
...furious row in Britain's Parliament, where a formal inquiry was launched into how the government could have let itself be used by an American highflyer at such cost to its treasury. Protested Sir William Clark, chairman of the Conservative Party's backbench finance committee: "This is absolutely monstrous; it shows that to pump public money into businesses merely to create jobs can be disastrous...
Classes officially ended at 12.30 yesterday afternoon in Hanover. Seven hours later, virtually everybody on campus turned out for a parade. At 8:30 p.m., the spirited throng gathered around a monstrous bonfire that the freshman class spent the week constructing...