Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only-accomplishment of the Army-McCarthy hearings has been the introduction of Joseph Nye Welch to American televiewers. His wonderful performance is the best entertainment I've had in years. Thank you . . . for his background sketch [TIME...
...anxious to clamp a power-mad elite on drug-happy masses (the theories of the '30s reappear here for a spell). Outfitted with a new set of values, Ravenstreet breaks with Lord Mervil and wins the forgiveness of his erstwhile mistress on her deathbed. Ravenstreet is eager to thank the three "magicians" for everything, but they have vanished into the thin upper air of Author Priestley's somewhat pixilated imagination. A deft master of pace, Priestley keeps his story interesting, long after all its preposterous plot lines have become tangents...
...that Route Coloniale 41 was Red General Giap's direct line of advance against Hanoi and the Red River Delta, but Huard apparently accepted the Red terms without question. That night the French army radio put out this note of appreciation: "The delegates of the French high command thank the delegates of the Viet people's army for their humanitarian concern." And the Communists seemed just as friendly next day when they helped load the first eleven wounded into a couple of French helicopters: "We hope you will remember what we have done for you. We hope this...
...Oppenheimer: Be he what he may-communist, Socialist, Democrat, Republican, Catholic, Protestant, Jew. Let us all thank God that he stayed in the U.S. to make the A-and H-bombs...
Compliments from fellow writers are piled like clover on the jacket of Poet Randall Jarrell's first novel, Pictures from an Institution. "While busy at his mighty task, how gay he seems; how gay we are as we look on! How can we ever thank him?" asks Poetess Marianne Moore. "Immense fun to read," says Critic David Daiches. "A sparkling, damnably clever, wicked piece of work." "I am starting a fan club," bubbles Richard P. (7½ Cents) Bissell...