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...university broke another custom by letting "the pride of Virginia, Mr. George Catlett Marshall," speak at the convocation. He recalled wartime conferences with Britons. The idea of understanding lighted his words again, this time with warmth. "We almost invariably reached agreement no matter how complex the issue...
...beneath the partisanship, there was much deep concern. Hard and complex problems had to be faced. Congressmen buckled down to work...
...easygoing pidgin, one word does the work of 20, a shrug or grimace the work of ten. It ranges from the simple ("I no like that") to the colorfully complex ("You stay go, I stay come," meaning "You go ahead, I'll join you later"). When Hawaiian idiom is mixed with pidgin grammar, the result takes an expert to fathom. Sample: "He no got wahine. She too much pilikia. Make him huhu." ("He has no girl any more. She was too much trouble. She made...
...nation that bases its entire political structure on a shifting and complex mass of minor parties, any coordinated government becomes a highly dubious proposition. France is the home of such small fry. Its National Assembly is composed of every political shade from rabid red to gouty blue. M. Schuman must compose these squabbling factions if he even dreams of a successful regime. His only real hope lies in the tremendous mandate of 412 votes to 184 awarded him by the Assembly...
Predictable Ruts. Significantly, the best of Spearhead's younger writers are turning away from technical experiments. In John Berryman's fine story, The Imaginary Jew, in Delmore Schwartz's poetic probing of the Oedipus complex ("the child must carry his fathers on his back"), and in Randall Jarrell's savage war poetry, verbal high jinks are replaced by untortured statement and controlled emotion...