Word: telegraphe
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...isolationism rose particularly against Herbert Hoover for suggesting that the U.S. might base its defense of the free world on the Western Hemisphere (see U.S. AFFAIRS). The Manchester Guardian asked: "Where does this leave us poor Europeans?" London's Daily Telegraph lamented: "Such a policy . . . would mean that [Western Europe] was at the mercy of the Red army. [It] would result in America becoming . . . an isolated and ultimately indefensible free society...
...Telegraph, by Stendhal. Book Two of Stendhal's "third masterpiece," Lucien Leuwen; a savage and witty satire on the bourgeois monarchy of Louis Philippe (TIME...
...story of Lucien in politics is told in The Telegraph, part two of Lucien Leuwen, the unfinished "third masterpiece" of French Novelist Stendhal. With last spring's publication of part one, The Green Huntsman (TIME, June 26), Stendhal's story is now available in English for the first time...
...show little of their social arithmetic. It is as though they had been kept by a brilliant clerk who, in the first volume, scribbled a love story over his accounts, and in the second, glimpsing the significance of the figures he was adding, covered the pages with invective. The Telegraph is one of the most savagely witty books ever written...
...navigate the muck. With great credit to his reputation, he manages to hush a scandal that might have brought the cabinet down. Soon after, he is in the thick of a provincial election, passing out bribes as easily as breathing. In all this stock jobbery, the newly invented telegraph serves the political and financial turn of the men in power so often that Stendhal sees the instrument as a symbol of corruption...