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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silent Archie. Aside from his purely military talents, there were other more intimate qualities which helped General Wavell rise so greatly to his test. He is quietly efficient. His subordinates sometimes refer to him as "Silent Archie" and "Guinea-a-Word Wavell." He works hard -rises at 6:15 a.m., does not dawdle all afternoon over lunch, and is tireless in flying from front to front to keep in touch with his vast command. He is physically tough, and rides, plays golf, goes swimming even when crises are thickest. His calm is unshatterable, he can be hurried...
Tech men naively believe that the boys at the "Country Club" (that's us) refer to them disdainfully as the "plumbers down the river." To learn that their mortal enemies have rarely been guilty of a more complete or nasty comment than "Technology? Good school," would be heartbreaking, but the myth is as yet undisturbed. Their continuous guerrilla warfare, consisting of such minor pranks as neckties draped around John Harvard and abortive attempts to weld the gates, has gone unnoticed. Last year, however, Rochester's abduction did attract some attention, but Harvard failed to grasp the idea that...
...storm & strife of what Mexicans still refer to as "the revolution"-a confused and confusing mixture of banditry, adobe-hut Marxism, nationalism and agrarian reform which has been seething for 30 years-rose three great revolutionary artists. Their lurid propaganda paintings (reaching Mexico's illiterate peons far more effectively than printed words) covered walls from Nuevo Leon to Yucatan and revived the art of fresco painting on a scale unequaled since the Italian Renaissance. The three: stocky, effusive Diego Rivera; grim, brooding José Clemente Orozco; pallid, green-eyed, conspiratorial David Alfaro Siquieros...
...mechanisms through which abnormal responses of the body occur, under conditions of stress, are little known and represent an important research opportunity. In considering the problem of abnormal responses of the body I do not refer to the unfit among us, but rather...
Perhaps John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra) could polish off the script. But though characters in O'Hara novels sometimes refer to each other as "Fitzgerald characters," O'Hara is more a Hemingway derivative, belongs less among the sad young men than with U. S. Literature's dead-end kids : James M. Cain ( The Postman Always Rings Twice), Horace McCoy (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?), pseudonymous Richard Hallas (real name Eric Knight...