Word: briefs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...hoods made from the parachutes of Major General William H. Tunner's life-saving airlift. Some of the marine dead were buried in a cemetery at Hamhung, under mounds of raw red clay topped by white crosses. The marine commander, Major General Oliver P. Smith, uttered a brief and moving tribute, chaplains of three faiths said prayers, a rifle salute rang out, a bugler sounded taps...
...After brief debate in the Senate, the petition was pigeonholed...
...Country is Renoir's bitter-sweet version (filmed in 1936) of a De Maupassant short story about a romantic brief encounter and its melancholy aftermath. The director puts plenty of feeling into his pastoral atmosphere, and his love scenes catch fire. However, the script is poorly constructed, much of the comedy seems forced, and the picture's mooning romanticism finally cloys...
From U.S. writers, there were few outstanding literary biographies, little notable poetry and even less first-rate literary criticism. Newton Arvin's Herman Melville was the best critical study of the year, brief, intelligent and splendidly informed; Edmund Wilson's Classics and Commercials was a good, stimulating collection of minor pieces by the best of U.S. working critics. Poet Robert Frost was much honored, but no poetry was published that promised a likely successor to him. Carl Sandburg's Complete Poems contained 72 newly collected ones that showed the same minstrel's virtues and poetic limitations...
...Drive (10/25/50), or in your story on the opening day of the drive (10/31/50). (The three buried lines in your later editorial (11/1/50) were wholly ineffective, not merely because they came after most of your readers had already made up their minds, but also because you were entirely too brief to summarize fairly the written statement to you of the important facts involved--not merely the $17,000 of free medical services provided directly for students last year, but the nearly $500,000 in the 1951 Red Feather budget for purposes indirectly benefiting students this year...