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...left to one of RFC's own harried directors to give the committee one solid bit of testimony to chew on. The whole RFC board had been "bad," declared Director William E. Willett and he guessed that he had been just "as bad as the rest...
...Baltimore, Poet Robert Frost was asked why he liked to write eclogues, said: "Well, I guess I write 'em same as I chew tobacco, because the women...
...Historians. The Hinge of Fate covers the period December 1941-June 1943. Already it is clear that more than any other individual thus far-whether participant, recorder, or pure raconteur-Writer Churchill has given historians their richest cud to chew. No man, not even F.D.R. or Stalin, was so central to events or so frequently determined their course. If his history is not the last word on the events it describes, it is certainly the best foundation now in sight for the last word when it is written...
...education, what to do about Tito, what to do about Formosa. Before his guests arrive, an "intellectual task force" of scholars will chum out background research. When the assemblymen have talked their way through the problems, their conclusions will be published for the rest of the U.S. to chew...
...Parade's End Ford tried, like Tolstoy in War and Peace, to bite off and somehow chew a massive chunk of social history. It was Ford's belief that the industrial revolution had broken the back of the traditional England and that World War I had given the coup de grâce. In the struggles and frustrations of one Christopher Tietjens (a name almost as un-English as Hueffer), Ford tried to express the gradual destruction of a way of life for which (as Ford Student Robie Macauley puts it) "the world is an equable and logical...