Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Venezuela and elsewhere. The Suez crisis cost the country a cruel $100 million in higher crude prices and freights. Foreign oil companies would get the oil out of the ground or spend millions in Argentina trying. Instead, oil-is-ours nationalism assigns petroleum development to the capital-short, bureaucratic Y.P.F...
...politician, the President presented the world with an appealing slogan. "Open skies" sounded like a Good Thing, because Americans are good at free competition so long as it is clean and "open." "Open skies" called to mind Woodrow Wilson, fair play, and possibly even Blue Skies. It was, in short, a note of hope. Perhaps it still is. But it is also an inadequate and delusory approach to the problem of disarmament...
...both vivid and various, and its weaknesses are the sort that promise future strength. In his refusal to make explicit judgments - leaving it to the reader to draw his own conclusions - Connell has made his first steps in the direction of the goal set by that master of the short story, James Joyce, who argued that "the artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, paring his fingernails...
...This short, lucid and important book is the best work to date on the subject, and should be the last word for all except the sentimentally prejudiced. At a time when many TV-conditioned minds are nudged towards the "forum" rather than real debate, this argumentative work is a relief. In a wide cast for the high-flying fish of fallacy, Dean Griswold & Co. are firmly caught on Hook's hook...
Opening a collection of short stories by a new writer is often like dipping into a sample box of chocolates : the unwary are apt to be brought down by a surfeit of soft centers or too many brandied cherries. In this book there is no such hazard. Its eleven stories are all rock-hard and novel in flavor...