Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Words are easy to push around, not like people," asserted Robert Frost, one of America's foremost poots, before a large audience in the New Lecture Hall Wednesday evening. In regard to the interpretation of his works, he said, "A reader ceases to be good when he becomes a student of my poems...
...poet went on to say that in poetry, "The story comes first." In regard to "philosopkked tenets," he stated, "It's strange what peculiar abstractions naive people read into many authors' writings. To determine the meaning of my writing," Frost declared, "a young man can read my stuff and find out for himself...
...about-face in the propaganda line with regard to China, coincident with the recall of General Stilwell, is as indecent as that of the Communist line in this country at the time of Germany's attack on Russia. For years we have been fed the story of Chiang Kai-shek's wonderful accomplishment of uniting the Chinese people and of holding off the Japs, which is now being belittled. Our correspondents complain of the censorship and not being allowed to visit the Chinese front. Are they any more restricted than in Russia, from whose fronts even our military...
...Dumbarton Oaks proposals assure . . . that when the war coalition dissolves it will be replaced by a peace coalition, rather than by pre-war anarchy. . . . Therefore, they can be accepted. But they can be accepted only as a beginning. Next to doing nothing, the worst calamity would be to regard what is now done as adequate. . . . We must recognize the fact that we face a continuing task...
Fellow flyers ascribe McCampbell's success to: 1) crack marksmanship, 2) "more goddamned guts than any man you ever saw," 3) a sober regard for the enemy that keeps him primed for battle ("I have been shot full of holes three times but never shot down," says McCampbell, "and I never forget that"). But probably the biggest reason for it is that he fights for all he is worth. After one battle, the other pilots in his squadron returned with an average of 20 gallons of gasoline and 100 rounds of ammunition; McCampbell, who had his command...