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The little battle established Washington, once dubbed a Fabius Cunctator, as a general of brilliant resource. Said Frederick the Great (an expert with the rhetorical long bow): these "achievements were the most brilliant of any recorded in the annals of military science." The Revolution went on to its ordained end...
Why don't French party leaders get together? Several generations of Frenchmen and foreigners had pettishly asked this rhetorical question. Last week, leaders of France's three major parties-who hate each other-were united in a campaign for the new constitution. But millions of Frenchmen did not...
Over the years, most of the Hawthorne irony has worn thin; the Hawthorne moralizing and allegorizing now have the force of a Sunday school sermon; the famed Hawthorne style, once so eloquent and orotund, now seems merely archaic and rhetorical ("My father, wherefore didst thou inflict this miserable doom upon...
Marshall was well aware of the danger. In a valedictory message as Army Chief of Staff last October, he asked: "Are we already shirking the responsibility of victory? . . . Are we inviting the same international disrespect that prevailed before this war?" He had given his rhetorical question a ringing answer: "We...
Her tired face twitching nervously, Miss Nordentoft told a reporter that, of the thousand letters she had received, only ten were angry. Said she: "The public has given me the responsibility for other people's children. Should I not be able to bring up a child of my own...