Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your reviewer of Earl Schenck Miers' and Richard A. Brown's Gettysburg [TIME, May 31] does an injustice to the British observer with the Confederates, Colonel Arthur Fremantle, when applying the word "tactless" to Fremantle's remark to General Longstreet after the failure of Pickett's charge...
...onlooking Harvard undergraduate, soured by a winter of Radcliffe Jolly-ups, could only remark, "I've never seen so many people at Harvard having a good time." Today the windup, the last round, until ten or 15 or 20 years...
...Nature Grand. The New York Herald Tribune printed a folksy bit of home-town news: "New York City was favored last night with a sunset that rivaled those of the tropics in its splendor . . . Pedestrians in midtown cross streets stopped to watch and remark to each other on its beauty. There were not only cloud strata tinted from brilliant orange to deep mauve, but there were streaks of vivid blue sky and a vertical path of vivid color that resembled the reddish-white color of an open-hearth steel furnace...
...revealing critical remark about Kafka was made by French Novelist Albert Camus: "It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of this work to offer us everything and to confirm nothing...
...America's own doing. The U.S. had never effectively advertised the nature or the extensive amount of its help, or the peaceful intentions of its purpose. Above all, the U.S. was remote and rich. The Communists adroitly played on these facts, and on Italy's fears. A remark which one Italian woman made last week told a good deal about the difficulty of getting through to Europeans. Said she: "If there is a war, what is left of our homes and towns will be utterly destroyed. Then America will say 'Have courage...