Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Ward Ostrom (associate professor of English at Wittenberg College), is essential to every serious student of Poe's career; but on the basis of this collection alone the reader might well form a picture of America's greatest lyric poet as a hardworking, businesslike, irritable literary politician...
Chiang on his part has neither sought the goals envisioned at Yalta nor has he proved himself a capable general or politician. Disregarding American advice, he has constantly wrecked his military strategy by mixing it with politics. He has wasted American equipment by sending his recruits into the field after only a month of training. Most important, he has relied more and more heavily on the extreme reactionary element in his party, thus driving the liberal intellectuals into the communist camp...
Most of the cast of "The Road to Rome" has had Broadway experience and three were no glaring evidences of amateurism. Robert Harris as Fabius Maximus was very comical in the role of the frightened politician-turned-dictator. Huge Franklin as Hannibal and Michael Sivy as his younger brother gave assured, first-rate performances. As the character with Mr. Sherwood's best comedy lines and all of his thoughtful ones, Polly Rowles, the Roman wife, acted with such vagueness and ennui that many of her lines just seemed to curl up on the stage floor and die, lacking vitality...
...London last spring for the unveiling of her husband's monument, men respectfully took off their hats as she passed. The London News Chronicle wrote: "She has walked with kings, but never lost the common touch. Immersed in politics, she has never acquired the hard professionalism of the politician...
...week's end Ben-Gurion was beaming. For the first time since May, Israel had a wide, firm land corridor to her settlements in the Negeb. Israeli forces were also hammering closer & closer to Gaza, chief Arab supply base on the coast. Politician Ben-Gurion also hoped that U.N. delegates in Paris, now discussing Palestine, would agree with Israel that the best solution was an old formula: possession is nine points...