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...shall endeavour to supply my readers with materials which are of contemporary interest. National institutions will be examined and described-not as abstractions, but as concrete realities; and current affairs-whether in the region of science, art, literature, society, or politics-will be discussed from no purely theoretical standpoint. That is what I have striven...
...staffed by the undersigned, would be to . . . impound the sad dogs, the intellectual poodle dogs and the pusillanimous pups which now infest our State Department . . . The President could ill afford to have more brains in the Dog Department than in the Department of State and, from this standpoint, his remarks to you are eminently justified...
...much more harmonious here today, from an architectural standpoint," decided Sir Laurence Olivier, after absenting himself from Hollywood a while. "In 1930, it made me dizzy to find an Arab mosque looking unflinchingly at an English abbey...
...Ohio's Robert Taft, who talked as if all the mobilization now going on was meant only to lick North Korea, instead of preparing for something worse. "I do not intend to say that the Korean war is not a real war," he argued. "But from an economic standpoint, it is not any particular strain on the economy...
...President had set in motion soon after the Communists began rolling). But in its blackboard arguments, NSC had never been able to make up its mind about sending U.S. troops. Infantryman Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, had held that Korea wasn't worth it from the standpoint of pure military strategy; the State Department-backed by the Navy-had said it very well might be, for reasons of U.S. prestige in Asia and U.S. leadership in the world...