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...offhand opinion, if a vote were taken [in Canada] tomorrow, there would probably be 40% to 45% of the people vote for a political union with the U.S."* Two days later he raised the estimate to a flat 45%. Many Canadians, he insisted, believe that the standard, of living would go up 25% overnight if there was political union with...
Suddenly G.B.S. remembered the author's work, paid it an offhand compliment: "[Mr. Cole's] book is good enough for the occasion and better; and nothing I have said about it must be taken as a disparagement. . . . He is, if anything, too modest, for the enormous success of socialism in Russia has been a triumph of Fabian tactics over revolutionary catastrophism. . . . The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics can now be quite properly called the Union of Soviet Fabian Socialist Republics...
...Campbell, James Agee, etc.). The prose writings are also various: Churchill on Dunkirk, stories by Henry James, Eudora Welty, James Thurber, sayings by Logan Pearsall Smith, essays by Aldous Huxley and E. M. Forster, letters by John Jay Chapman, etc. Author Maugham steps in from time to time with offhand comments...
There was no simple, offhand explanation, and this made people wonder all the more. The last possible date of service to military secrecy or to the aid of the forced-down flyers had passed months before. The raid, even to many of its specific details, had been a U.S. open secret for a long time. The fact seemed to be that the raid, which had first been hailed as a great and famous thing, had gradually been publicly accepted as something less-a bold but ineffective exploit-in what the New York Herald Tribune called "our sophomore period...
...good example of Wylie in action is his discussion of the American figments he calls mom and Cinderella. Says he: "Filial duty was recognized by many sorts of civilizations," and filial love and honor have normally been accorded those women who honestly earned it. "But I cannot think, offhand, of any civilization except ours in which an entire division of living men has been used, during wartime, or at any time, to spell out the word 'mom' on a drill field...