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...personal tank battle, just the two of them, squared off in a duel to the death." Patton encouraged that flamboyant image until finally he threatened to degenerate into self-parody. He once presented a speaker to his troops by saying: "Men, I want to introduce to you the noblest work of God-a killer!" With his ivory-handled pistols and magnificently bloodthirsty battle speeches, his dashing tank tactics and the almost sinister boyishness with which he rushed into combat ("L'audace, toujours I'audace"), he was probably war's last romantic. "I love wars and am having...
PLAYWRIGHTS CAN SATIRIZE their societies in two different ways. They can look at things at their worst, at their most blatantly divergent from the professed ideals of the people around them. Or they can take the professed ideals at their noblest and best, but without blinding themselves to the realities they mask, so that the realities begin to show through only gradually, in glimmers, in a way that's painful and impossible to dispute. The first method usually presents a clearer statement. Since its techniques are more direct, more didactic, more immediately biting, the criticisms the playwright presents leap...
...said: "I've got good news for you. The President wants you to be Vice President." Haig suggested that Ford might want to get his wife Betty on the line to hear the good news. Ford did, but in one of those small diversions that can deflect the noblest moments, she turned out to be talking on the Fords' other phone to one of their sons at school, using the only house line with an extension outlet. So Haig hung up, Ford got Betty to hang up, and Haig called back on Betty's line and repeated...
...tell me the details. 1 do not want to know." Frederick LaRue suggested that Sloan take the Fifth Amendment to stay in the good graces of the campaign organization. Disgusted and disillusioned, Sloan resigned from the committee, eliciting from Ervin the homily "An honest man is the noblest work...
...educational? The noblest deeds of man are not educational? Their expression in the most sublime film ever made is not educational...