Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strength of the film lies in its objectivity. Passing no judgment on twelve-year-old Giuseppe or his fourteen-year-old friend Pasquale, it traces their development from urchins who cry, "Hey, shoeshine, Joe?" at the passing GIs, through the days when they become hardened inmates of a juvenile cell-block where they have been sentenced for black-market sales...
Victorious in their only trial so far--a 46-29 win over a spotty M.I.T. team--the locals will be getting their first major test. Strength is pretty well established in several events, for both Jerry Gorman and Ted Norris turned in either double wins or a win and a vital medley job against the Engineers, but there are several weakerslots in the lineup...
...decision to break it was the vastest gamble in peacetime history. George Marshall's estimate-"calculated risk"-meant in soldier's language that it could be won, if all went well, if the most powerful nation in the world threw all its physical and moral strength into the fight...
Ludicrous & Loving. Ready to grant most of the criticisms made of Wolfe, he admits that "no other important modern writer has appeared so often naive, extravagant, maudlin, ludicrous." But the strength of Wolfe's novels lies in their deep and loving evocation of significant segments of U.S. life; Thomas Wolfe's "image is the great national myth, the American Dream." No one else has so vividly rendered the inner tensions of ordinary, unintellectual small-town Americans-and done so in the traditional rolling phrases of the American declamatory style which Wolfe inherited from Whitman and Melville...
According to a Harvard classmate, Historian Francis Parkman suffered from "Injuns on the brain." Even on a tour of Switzerland, he sat on a rock "fancying myself again in the American woods with an Indian companion." His ailment, if such it was, gave strength and color to some of the most readable history written by any U.S. scholar (The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac). Parkman was born a Boston Brahmin, but spent much of his life covering, on foot and on horseback, the wild Western ground he was to write about. His journals, in some respects more valuable than...