Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bevin displays little humor and geniality around the office ("Life is Real, Life is Ernest" soon became a common quip). He likes a drink and a chat, but is pathetically awkward at making friends. Nevertheless he won underpaid Foreign Office hearts by going to bat for a general salary raise. When a friend suggested that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Daiton, might object, Bargainer Bevin roared: "I'll take the worthy doctor by his pants and swing him around my head till...
...including graduates, Radcliffe enrolees, late registrants, and the present stream of course changes, first tabulations nevertheless show the continuing supremacy of the social sciences. The Government Department boasts a slight lead, with an approximate total of 1200, over Economics and History with...
...gadgets for locating castaways at sea (Very pistols, dye markers, a hand-cranked automatic radio, etc.) the U.S. Navy added another that has vastly more range and accuracy than al] the rest. The latest, perfected too late for use in World War II but due for plenty of use, nevertheless, is a long-range underwater sound system called Sofar (Sound Fixing and Ranging...
...Maria Remarque confessed, after 17 years, that he had not planned All Quiet on the Western Front as an "antiwar book." Said he: "I was simply interested in portraying the reaction of youth facing death." To writer Remarque the really effective anti-war book would be a picture-book. Nevertheless he was still writing, was following up a new novel (see BOOKS) with yet another, about German crimes and German mistakes. "The human mind forgets too quickly," explained between-the-wars best-seller Remarque. "The simple fact that a man has survived the war . . . makes him, after a short time...
Undiminfshed Fame. Nevertheless, "Wordsworth's fame stays undiminished. . . ." Matthew Arnold, good critic and better poet, ranked Wordsworth just below the greatest poets: "Dante, Shakespeare, Molière, Milton, even Goethe, are altogether larger and more splendid luminaries in the poetical heaven over Wordsworth. But I know not where else, among the moderns, we are to find his superiors." As the modern skies grow darker, the comets sizzle into oblivion, and the novas burn themselves out, the body of Wordsworth's best work shines with the steadiness of those far suns whose light reaches us over unimaginable distances...