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...such dreams there is a wealth of background material. When naval strength was computed in terms of wooden ships and iron men, an unidentified artist in the Mexican war of 1846-47 pictured the battleship of 1952. It was a cathedral-like fortress armed and armored to the crow's nest. His pagodaed vision had a strange prescience in its slanting surfaces, its radical protection for the crew...
Having slept in many a foxhole with him, I take TIME to task for a flippantly misleading background sketch of a most able man, neither melancholy nor laconic, and in the vernacular of the "Cousin Jacks" (an Army nickname pinned on Searls because of his fund of Welsh miners' stories) I say "Back...
...have got to move toward greater equality and greater 'community' of living," said Sir Stafford. "We have got to have a moral background to our whole life. We have tended to divorce our religious and ethical values from our practical affairs. . . . But we must learn to do as we think. To bring those two worlds together we need the Christian inspiration...
Hard-working Mr. Crowley has few diversions. Once he owned a race horse. Occasionally he visits a race track. But the sporting world is not his background. The proper background for Leo Thomas Crowley is marble & mahogany. A bachelor, he lives in Washington's glittering Mayflower Hotel. In his FDIC office hangs a "No Smoking" sign. He cannot stand the smell, which annoys his sinuses...
...changing fashions in theatre and musical styles. Whether a person likes opera or not is largely a matter of temperament, and condemning it for its theatrical shortcomings is like panning a movie on the grounds of a bad musical score. The scenery and acting exist to provide a convincing background for the singing, and the more effective it is the more effective the opera, but the quality of the music should be by far the most important standard of judgment. Shakespeare had to paint his scenery in words, and Wagner's eloquent orchestra does much more towards suggesting the barbaric...