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...Superhuman Forbearance." Secretary Byrnes was in Paris. Since the opening of the Peace Conference, an amateur statistician of the Quai d'Orsay had estimated Byrnes had uttered some 90,000 words in public. But since Wallace had attacked his policy he had not spoken one. Now he still said nothing...
...talked and there was no mistaking their indignation. Vandenberg, sick of trying to demonstrate national unity in foreign policy when the Administration was so disunited, was thoroughly fed up. Editorialized the Baltimore Sun: "It will be almost impossible to repair [the Wallace-Truman blunder] unless these men show almost superhuman forbearance and stand by the stricken ship of nonpartisan policy." Connally and Vandenberg stood...
...intensity of a crucible, the ultimate, almost masklike human magnificence which may be seen in the sculpture of Michelangelo. This face is all the more impressive, when compared with leisured, restive, shy shots made in Toscanini's home, in which he is obviously as human as he is superhuman, and about as comfortably adjusted, away from his job, as a tiger in a cage...
Rupture. A day later Tokyo virtually admitted (in another code) that all negotiations were at an end: "Well, you two Ambassadors have exerted superhuman efforts . . . but the negotiations will be de facto ruptured. This is inevitable. However, I do not wish you to give the impression that the negotiations are broken off. Merely say to them [i.e., Roosevelt & Hull] that you are awaiting instructions. . . . Say that we have always demonstrated a long-suffering and conciliatory attitude...
...planes against an extravagant dawn which one might only smile at on a calendar. That in turn meets more than its match in the pictures which follow-the first of those many gunbarrel shots of combat in color which, in their effortless achievement at once of superhuman force and grandeur and of jewel-like delicacy, might well make this film the envy of good poets and painters for the rest of time. Later on, over Truk and Kwajalein and the Marianas, these shots-plus some hair-raising ones of crash-landings on the carrier deck-heap one astonishment so thickly...