Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Future. Now, says the Times, "these quick, tremendous, inventive, bold people are to be tested once more." For the third time in history their empire is on the rocks. It broke up once when Joan of Arc smashed the Anglo-French alliance. It abandoned the Channel and reformed across the ocean, only to come to grief again at the hands of George Washington's men. The question facing Britons now, says the Times, "is whether, and, if so, in what shape, it will reform . . . Very few societies have done this trick twice. None, except perhaps the Greek, with Athens...
...boom in television strikes ARCHITECTURAL FORUM as a very mixed blessing. Blinking nervously, the current FORUM takes a quick, appalled look at TV's pres, ent and foreseeable future. Sample findings...
...Vegas, Nev., city of fast weddings and quick divorces, Judge A. G. ("Gus") Blad, a part-time bartender, led a field of twelve candidates for justice of the peace. The job is worth $50,000 a year in marriage fees...
Professor Matthiessen believes that Harvard, where "the individual teacher is scarcely more than a hired hand," falls short of what "American society has a right to expect." He also decides, after a quick look around Paris, that "if I lived in France, I don't quite see how I could help being a Communist." But he glibly disavows Communism in the U.S. on the grounds that "it has made hardly any progress." (His compromise is the shrill and not unexpected determination "to vote for Wallace, even if I had to write in his name on the ballot.") And with...
...fire aboard the Russian motorship Pobeda, in the Black Sea. An up-from-the-ranks peasant soldier, Feng participated in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's 1911 coup against the Manchus, reputedly baptized his troops with a garden hose after he became a Methodist in 1913. His quick-change loyalties led him to support and then betray Chiang at least four times...