Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after peace came to weary Finland, Strategist Freeman wrote: "Men of short memory and shorter patience are demanding a more vigorous prosecution of the war. . . . Will the dead be given leave to speak from the grave? They have one answer to all the insistence upon rash offensives. It is compressed into seven words: Do not attack until you are ready! "President...
Part of the credit belongs accidentally to censorship and the camera. Censorship excised John Steinbeck's well-meant excesses. Camera-craft purged the picture of the editorial rash that blotched the Steinbeck book. Cleared of excrescences, the residue is the great human story which made thousands of people, who damned the novel's phony conclusions, read it. It is the saga of an authentic U. S. farming family who lose their land. They wander, they suffer, but they endure. They are never quite defeated, and their survival is itself a triumph...