Word: reflection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said a general just back from Korea: "Limited and local actions are often more instructive than swift engagements over extended terrain. The Eighth Army has had time to study its mistakes, whereas troops in rolling actions are often so busy advancing or retreating that they have no time to reflect on their freshest experiences. The Eighth Army's patrolling is better, its defensive positions more effectively prepared, its fire patterns better laid. In the rear area, communications, maintenance and supply are better organized than those of World War II armies...
Actually, this sub-plot moves throughout the picture. In the context of the larger plot, however, the lives of the two young people reflect the forces moving in their immediate environment and intimately clarify the effects of the struggle. But without this context, the romance loses all significance, seems out of place, and only succeeds in marring the film's many excellent aspects...
Laboratory Spirit. In addition to these externals of AEC performance, reporters trying to determine whether the commission is doing a good job can have limited access to another kind of evidence. Atomic weapons are created by men and organizations of men. In the long run, the weapons must reflect the character and spirit of their makers. If the AEC is getting its share of the best U.S. brains and devotion, the chances are that the bombs it produces are plentiful and good...
...speeches are far from being a firm, complete political platform. But they reflect a basic political philosophy that could easily provide underpinnings for a candidate who wanted to build a platform in a hurry...
This year American literature marked time: U.S. authors produced little that will be read with excitement in 1961. But for the general reader, alive to his time and looking for books that reflect it, 1951 was a good year. Even the publishers cast off their long faces, and began to smile. Their break-even point on a new novel stood at around 7,000 to 10,000 copies-anything below that point usually meant red ink. But thanks to the lusty sales of nonfiction, and the royalties from reprints and other sidelines, most publishers did better than in 1950. Most...