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Semi-Private. In Cincinnati, a housewife suffered rude disillusionment after six months of confident belief in her special "one-way vision" bathroom window...
Trotsky was electric, impressive, imperious, cerebral and impatient of men whose thinking was slower than his own. Stalin was diffident (says Trotsky, from a sense of intellectual insecurity), deliberate (says Trotsky, from craftiness), grossly rude (says Trotsky, from an innate brutality). His mind was probing rather than comprehending, calculating rather than incisive, and its speed was that of a delayed fuse...
Reluctant Unbeliever. Instructed in Catholicism as a child, Madrid-born George Santayana came to Boston to live with his mother's New England in-laws in 187 at the age of nine, studied and taught at Harvard until 1912. He then left the rude U.S. to spend the rest of his life in the nostalgic atmosphere of Europe-first in Oxford and Paris, then at last in Rome...
...rude scaffold stood in a Philippine cane field near the old Japanese torture camp of Los Banos. In the early morning (3:02 a.m.), under the glare of three floodlights, Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita strode up its 13 steps, his big bulk dressed in a U.S. Army fatigue outfit -the symbol of military disgrace ordered by his conqueror, General Douglas MacArthur...
...legislative price fixing seems doomed by postwar cotton economics. As Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson summed up: "If any farmer has the idea that cotton's problems can be solved merely by putting a floor under the price of raw cotton, he is in for a rude awakening...