Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing on Little Round Top, a hill that anchored the southern end of the Union line, Ike and Monty agreed that Pickett's famous charge across nearly a mile of open fields exposed to Union guns had been illadvised. "Gosh, look at that, just look at that," said the President, as he studied a map. "Why you'd go across that, I don't know. I just don't know." Said Monty crisply: "Monstrous thing. It was an absolutely monstrous thing." Said Ike of Robert E. Lee, who ordered the charge: "You can't imagine...
...architect of victory in World War II? Churchill? Roosevelt? General Marshall? Eisenhower? None of those guesses hit the mark, according to British Historian Sir Arthur Bryant. His choice is a stooped, round-shouldered retired British officer who looks not unlike a solemn parrot, is addicted to bird watching, and lives quietly with his wife in the gardener's cottage of his estate in Hampshire. Most U.S. readers would stare blankly if asked to identify Field Marshal Alan Brooke, now Lord Alanbrooke. But Bryant's The Turn of the Tide, based on Alanbrooke's wartime diaries, has already...
Arthur Schnitzler's ingenious merry-go-round is twirling again, and quite gayly. In the unlikely case that you haven't heard, the play is about sex: a prostitute sleeps with a soldier, who sleeps with a parlor maid, who sleeps with a young gentleman, who ...and, after ten characters, back to the prostitute. Each affair makes a seperate seduction scene, usually broken in the middle by a delicately significant blackout...
...Indians tied for fourth with Cornell, while Harvard did not place within the top ten. Dartmouth number one man, Rod Frates, reached the quarterfinals in the individuals. He scored the fourth lowest score in the qualifying round...
With two away in the tenth, Hathaway, the junior varsity captain who started only because Walt Stahura and Dick Fisher could not make the trip, slammed his second solo round-tripper of the contest for the winning...