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Reynaud is an honest, able man. His financial policies were more sensible than most. He could envision something of what a war of movement and armor would do to France's static infantry. Above all, he knew that Hitler was not Kaiser Wilhelm I, "the old gentleman who took Alsace Lorraine from us," but a modern Genghis Khan. He knew that Laval, "the Robert Walpole* of the rabble," was squalid and detestable; that Pétain was a defeatist who had to be "kicked into" his victories in World War I, and in World War II, in the absence...
...evaluation of the effectiveness of the varied forms of communication-e.g., telegraphy, speech, art, music, semaphore, television-in terms of the idea that a certain percentage of symbols in a message does not convey information but merely combats "noise." Noise is sometimes defined as anything from the static of a radio message to a wall of fear, prejudice or misinformation existing in the mind of the listener...
...appalled to discover had been far too harshly carried out by overzealous subordinates, provoked a sitdown strike among the Marauders. As a mobile, one-shot force, they had succeeded brilliantly in harassing action, losing only 424 men in combat while inflicting tremendous casualties on the Japanese. But the static Nhpum Ga siege had broken their spirits-while amoebic dysentery, malaria, scrub typhus and psychoneurosis had put 1,970 men out of action. The Marauders were neither prepared nor equipped for the Myitkyina battle. They were withdrawn in June, disbanded in August...
...Jones industrial average, there are comparisons to '29-and the disaster that overtook small (as well as big) investors. But there is as little resemblance between the '55 and '29 markets as there is between the dynamic expansion of the American economy in 1955 and the static economy of 1929, when more and more stocks were floated on the same productive base. Furthermore, most of the rules of the game are different...
...novel's popularity is greatly responsible for the decline of narrative poetry, but novels have failed to use the story with true success, Muir said. "Almost all novels introduce space as well as time and thus replace living images with static descriptions of objects," Muir explained...