Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...create an atmosphere here," says Hans, "whose friendliness will remind a foreign scholar of his homeland--a sort of "home away from home"--but sufficiently different to challenge him with the habits and thinking of other lands and nations." The Center's genial leisure fosters such an ideal. Students from hostile nations resolve their problems over the chessboard; Englishmen and Egyptians, over a pot of tea, discuss the Suez Canal bloodlessly. Hans and Eleanor feel that such intimate chats help build foundations for permanent friendship and understanding...
...forcing just such an arrangement. In their effort to keep apace with the Air Force in projecting themselves into the pushbutton future, the Navy has apparently relegated to the second team its most effective weapon in the Pacific melee-the submarine. Perhaps some boning up on naval history will remind the Navy that both the Kaiser and Hitler came very close to winning two entirely different world conflicts with the U-boat ... It would be prudent and appropriate for the Navy to put at least equal emphasis on undersea warfare that it is now placing on aviation...
Only one picture was designed to remind Germans of Big Brother's big fist. Its title: The End. Subject: Hitler in his last moments in his crumbling Berlin bunker, a drooling, raving maniac surrounded by besotted generals. The rest of the exhibit was thoroughly predictable: noble Lenins, fatherly Stalins, travel-poster vistas of sunny harvest fields, hefty milkmaids, stern-jawed Stakhanovite workers, a tired, heat-racked oldster peering into the furnace glow whose portrait was entitled Esteemed Old Steel Puddler F. I. Sveshnikov. (Not to be confused with Esteemed Steel Puddler of the Hammer and Sickle Works...
What a good idea to remind Americans so vividly of "their own lively and fruitful folk heritage." It is still not so long ago that American artists and writers were complaining of the cultural "barrenness" of their native land...
...complaints. There are fine descriptive sketches of far places, in which exact description and smoldering imagination are firmly wedded. There are moving tributes to the British character, a splendid essay on a family pet (A Brown Owl) which once stared down Thomas Hardy. This is a book to remind readers of any age of the rich resources of written English. If nothing else, Author Tomlinson proves that the informal essay, that sad casualty of modern literature, can be as effective as a heart-to-heart talk...