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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million for Greek-Turkish military aid. But the ark itself was a $5.3 billion appropriation for the next twelve months. More would probably be voted later. The U.S. was committed to aiding 16 nations and Western Germany for the next four years-altogether the greatest undertaking of its sort in history...
...This sort of talk was reflecting on his integrity. He had meant his disavowal and he still meant it. That was final. Reporter Roberts, said Ike, could make that as strong as he wanted...
...society's need for a sex pattern. Patterns, Dr. Mead said, are necessary, and are found in every society "apparently to reward men for staying home at night, which doesn't seem to be biologically necessary." There is a danger that people may regard Kinsey as a sort of Emily Post of sex; his book "may increase the number of young men who indulge in 'outlets' with a sense of hygienic self-righteousness...
...most incredible things about this incredible film is the fact that it isn't nearly as terrible as it sounds. In an odd sort of way, it is fun. Much of the laborious cuteness, questionable bit by bit, is so wildly preposterous that the total effect is cheerfully insane-a little as if it were possible to have a happy, harmless case of the d.t.s. The movie will undoubtedly bore some people, disgust some and delight others; but on its novelty value alone, it may make a lot of money. The mere thought of the human and subhuman labor...
...saved by what Edmund Wilson calls Mencken's genial and acrid relish for the flavor of American life. Even more helpful are the odd anecdotes scattered through it, possessing the sort of owlish, stubborn humor that comes from wringing a subject dry and then wringing it some more. "In late years," says Mencken, "it is me has even got support from eminent statesmen. When, just before Roosevelt II's inauguration day in 1933, the first New Deal martyr, the Hon. Anton J. Cermak, was shot ... he turned to Roosevelt and said, 'I'm glad...