Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also I was surprised ... at the remark: "Shouted Playwright Clifford Odets." I know Mr. Odets, and one thing which impressed me was his quiet manner of speaking; I often had to reach to hear what...
This added up to quite an order for America. No one claimed that all the tasks could be earned out. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the convocation was that it heard no boosters of the 20th Century's high towers and great deeds. Yet a quiet optimism persisted. British Scientist Sir Henry Tizard, quoting the remark a school friend once made to Samuel Johnson, summed up the spirit of the conference: "I too have tried to be a philosopher; but I don't know how, cheerfulness kept breaking...
...correct a misstatement made in Monday's CRIMSON? I don't know where your reporter got the notion that I said that Emerson and Thoreau were "subjects of persecution when they attempted to speak out 'for peace and liberty.'" I made no such remark. My speech at the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace dwelt on the aspects of the American tradition most valuable for the world today and cited specifically Emerson's internationalism, Thoreau's determination to stand on principle in resistance to what he deemed an imperialistic war against Mexico, and Melville's and Whitman's conception...
Sullivan replied that the courts would decide when H442 should be brought into play on "a clear and present danger basis." He added that he felt the professor's remark in this case did not seem to constitute a clear and present danger...
...Millions of Americans were either shocked or pleased by President Truman's S.O.B. remark. But what about . . . Drew Pearson's reaction? . . . Surely the gentleman has not taken it lying down...