Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emergency air reserve counted on by the Government for war. Says William Gelfand, contract administrator for the Flying Tiger Line: "We don't say it is MATS' responsibility to keep any of us in business. But if the military is going to compete with the carriers, it must assume responsibility for the business the carriers are thus deprived...
...landscape swarming with Austrian soldiers and two-faced informers, handsome Angelo performs one brilliant, noble deed after another, soon wins himself a cheering public. Even before his stature has become "heroic," his bosses maneuver a neat fix: Angelo must be killed and enshrined as a national martyr. Instead, in a duel, innocent Angelo spits his enemy through the gizzard and continues to thrive. His bosses keep on hoping, when he is ordered to blow up an Austrian powder store and burn the fodder of the enemy cavalry. Instead of perishing superbly in the attempt, Angelo just does the job very...
...failure of nerve, Koestler believes, sabotaged these true starts toward knowledge. Faced with a Greek society already in decline, Plato equated any change with decay. For philosophic reasons, he decided that the sphere was the only perfect shape, that the world must be a perfect sphere and that the motion of heavenly bodies must be in perfect circles at uniform speed. Aristotle returned to the idea of an immobile earth and placed it in the center of nine concentric, transparent spheres, outside which was the Unmoved Mover who kept the whole machinery turning. To make the heavens jibe with Aristotle...
...brought up by a Belgian family? No, evidently, to the second question; the girl grew up to become the mistress of two German officers, and the women of the Resistance shaved off her hair. But a fierce, unfazed yes to the first; although life is unpleasant, it must be met squarely. At novel's end, the willowy girl courageously casts aside thoughts of her anguished lover and suicidal husband and stands alone, buttressed only by health, wealth and the example of her indomitable old aunt...
...House of Intellect, by Jacques Barzun. A thin, well-read line of intellectual heroes, says Columbia University's Barzun, must hold the past against artiness, scientism and coddled incompetents...