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...Hitler could be Man of 1938, for in that year he twice brought Europe to the brink of war (in Austria and Czechoslovakia). Despite Hitler's victories, Winston Churchill proved himself Man of 1940, and Franklin Roosevelt was chosen for the third time in 1941, after Pearl Harbor made him America's sixth wartime President...
Sympathetic males yelled warnings, but the unclad natator got to the brink of the pool before it all hit him. The blush that came then was more effective than is usually possible, for it spread, very visibly, over his entire body...
This is how Author Hersey introduces General MacArthur when Manila had reached the incredible brink of war: "He had been first in his class at West Point and First Captain of the class, too. He had been the first member of the Rainbow Division. He had been the first American Army officer ever to become a Field Marshal. He had been the first American to be a four-star General twice. . . . He had always done his job with a flourish and well. . . . He had been handsome, and divorced, and sometimes rather colorfully dressed, and always full of splendid rhetoric...
Harvard is dangerously near the brink of that same hill. Our administration has not completely abolished tutorial for the summer term but they have come close to it. Tutors will be granted only to Seniors writing their honors theses. The present Freshmen, who will be choosing their fields of concentration this spring and diving into their Sophomore year in June, will be denied the organized opportunity to analyze and discuss lecture and reading material that their predecessors were allowed to enjoy...
...silent as a chess player. (His one relaxation, in fact, is chess; his fellow Army men well know the Shaposhnikov end game.) He is personally cold and reticent, and he stays out of the political light. He is modest to the brink of affectation; his books are almost coquettish: "Our present immature work. ... If the magnanimous reader will do us the great honor of further following our reasoning. . . ." This silence and super-modesty have saved his political head time & again...