Word: oppressive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guard of Honor is sure not to please those who are accustomed to novels that passionately beat generals over the head with the common soldier and intolerant whites with the oppressed Negro. For Author Cozzens has performed the far more courageous and more painful job of putting down ugly facts. Unsentimentally, grimly, he says out loud what is often left unsaid-that in the U.S. "the big majority may feel that a Negro is a human being all right; but when you add that they want to see him treated fairly, you're wrong . . . The big majority does...
...Hulatao in LST's, and Lend-lease material continued to flow in long after the war was over, they had good reason to believe so. In no time at all, of course, the Communists developed the reverse side of the medal, that the Marines were only in China to oppress the people--in spite of the fact that they were helping repatriate Japs by the thousand. In such a situation the moderates had no chance to exploit the advantage that mediation by a third party presented. Truces were signed, properly witnessed, passed on to troops in the field, and backed...
...night & day, often organizing the whole world into an implacable conspiracy of persecution against you. It is these unknown powers that condemn you to be treated by a doctor you instantly recognize as a notorious murderer. They are the ones who arrange the subtle changes in weather that oppress you so much, who turn your home into an "ambush," who make your simplest acts and thoughts incomprehensible...
...better shape than he found it. Just how to achieve it bothers him intensely. Somehow, the more articulate ones feel, a way must be found to allow Europeans to choose their own political systems and yet to hold them in check so that the strong do not again oppress the weak...
...found merit in it. The late, great Percy Hammond intoned: "Later in the day I shall probably meet an acquaintance and he will ask me, as is the practice of a reviewer's acquaintances, what, if anything, I think of Abie's Irish Rose. Whereupon I shall oppress him with a sullen silence and pass upon my gloomy ways...