Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the vote came, Labor's motion to censure the Churchill government lost overwhelmingly: 303 to 196, with 57 Bevanite abstentions. At week's end, Clem Attlee felt impelled to make it clear that the vast majority of the British Labor Party supports the Tory decision to use H-bombs if necessary. Addressing the Oxford University Labor Club, Attlee also advised all those, including Churchill and Bevan, who set such store by Big Three talks: "It's no good going to the Kremlin and thinking you can read them the Sermon on the Mount . . . They are tough...
...Melville saw it, God's as well. The theme and mood of the novel are caught in a line from Moby Dick: "There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke." The setting for Melville's vast practical joke 'is a Mississippi riverboat, named Fidèle, on a run from St. Louis to New Orleans. The day is April Fool's Day. The characters are a bustling "congress of all kinds of that multiform pilgrim species...
...pathetic" there days at Hiroshima. "It was hard explaining," he recalls, "why you take their guns and ships and tanks away and then five years later you urge them to rearm. It just seemed inconsistent." Perhaps he was thinking of this paradox when he later wrote for The Atlantic: ". . . vast segments of our people are . . . devouring treatises on peace of mind, when everbody knows there is no peace...
Poggioli has written quite a few books himself, ranging from a study of Wallace Stevens (in Italian' to a collection of critical essays covering vast tracts of French and Italian literature. His courses here cover an equally broad mas of material: "Ideas of Tragedy," "The Symbolist Movement," 'European Classicism," "Dostoevsky and Tolstoy," and a few others. Many of Poggioli's colleagues consider him one of the two or three top scholars in comparative literature in the world. Concerning his plans for the future, he is working on a book which will analyze the whole field of avant-grade...
Cigar-Shaped Peril. In the Pacific last March, the hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll sent a shower of deadly radioactive dust (mostly pulverized coral) over a vast cigar-shaped area extending 220 miles downwind from the blast. Along a strip up to 20 miles wide, extending 140 miles downwind, the fall-out-if it had come down in a populated area-would have seriously threatened the lives of nearly every human. At a distance of 160 miles the lives of half the people would be threatened; at 190 miles 5% to 10% might die (varying with individual reaction...