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...such vague conclusions to draw as: "It is evident that in strategy there has been on our side no adjustment to the tempo or to the resources of the enemy. . . . I deem it my duty to warn the country that it is only by handling our problems with greater vigor and imagination that we can obtain victory...
...pity. Said he: "One frequently gets the impression of a hitchhiking generation." He assailed the New Deal for its effect "on the imagination and aspiration of youth," told a graduating class: "No real friend of yours could wish that you should never face misfortune. ... It is not so that vigor of mind or strength of character is developed...
...exciting nor stodgy. When Preacher Edwards preached hellfire he meant real fire. He lifted the scalps of his Northampton congregation by asking them to imagine first their little fingers dipped in the burning lake, then their hands, arms, whole bodies. He tackled the knotty complexities of doctrine with equal vigor. Biographer Winslow, who is chairman of the English department at Goucher College, pictures him as a man with a new vision unfortunately enmeshed in obsolescent theology...
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox is contrarily full of vigor; but ice-cold appraisers praise only his muscles. When he makes some such remark as "The U.S. will outproduce Hitler in 90 days" his whole Department groans; last week one Navy airman fell back on flying jargon to grumble: "The Old Man is shooting the breeze again...
...fact that the U.S. has always muddled its preparations for war does not condone another such muddle. But if all these facts loom large and dark, their ultimate sum is smaller than the ultimate sum of U.S. vigor and resource...