Word: surer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Affair, Graham Greene wrote with explosive irony about an adulterous love affair that leads to sainthood. Some of his critics complained that the Roman Catholic in Greene had grabbed the wheel from the novelist at the end. But Greene's skill had never been surer, and his book was one that his fellow novelists could study with profit. Another English novelist who could be studied but scarcely imitated was Henry Green, a businessman who is also a born writer. He had his ups & downs with three novels. Caught and Party Going carried his stamp only lightly. But Concluding (published...
...have any share in the institution that has preserved those values, and that today is struggling to make them ever more real among men, is hypocrisy indeed . . .We shall always need the free soul, the adventurer . . . his flashes of personal inspiration. But the greater the service he renders, the surer it is that an institution will have to assume the task of cherishing his insights and advancing his enthusiasms...
Despite its opposition to the bill, the Young Republicans Clubs has decided not to back the H.L.U. action. "There is no surer way of getting the bill through than by having Harvard students sign a petition against it." H.Y.R.C. president John B. Harrington 3L said yesterday. He added that the G.O.P. group plans to fight the bill by using its influence in Massachusetts political circles...
Quesada came out of the war surer than ever of the power of tactical air. But in the postwar era of demobilization and economy, the Air Force was cut to the nub and concentrated on heavy bombers. Quesada, then head of the Tactical Air Command, fought a bitter and losing battle. When Tactical Air was abolished as a separate command in 1948, impulsive "Pete" Quesada put in for retirement. He was independently well-to-do and married to the daughter of wealthy Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. But the Air Force persuaded him to stay...
...reporter could bulldoze a high-powered corps of newsmen, grow increasingly harder to take. At the end, the picture loses even its guile: it wrenches Douglas out of character, drags in some fortuitous violence to pay him for his sins, drags out a silly ending for shabby theatrical effect. Surer taste and a sense of restraint would have made Ace in the Hole something better than an exercise in cynicism and technical ingenuity...