Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favor political failure and social commentary, walk swiftly into the room, quickly close the door, stride across the room and pull down the shade, then clasp the interviewer's hand in yours and say, "Comrade!" The frankest approach and perhaps the easiest way to fail is to smirk as you shake hands and say, "Is this really necessary...
Greene's own way is always along a rocky, twisting, darkly landscaped road; it is no spiritual Easiest Way. If Greene, in treating the Callifer family, sharply satirizes the bigotry of disbelief, he never -however insistent his personal answer-brings bigotry to faith. The play's emotional power derives from its harassed outcries and silences, from very human bafflements and needs, from a truly serious man's intensities and jocosities alike...
...other side of the ledger, Wilson's adverse comment on the loyalty and capability of the National Guard is not entirely borne out by the facts. Naturally, everyone who joins the National Guard joins because he believes it is the easiest way to meet his military obligation. No one wants to give up six weeks of his year unless he is protected from the longer conventional arm of Uncle Sam. Mr. Wilson stretches words, with some justification, and calls this "draft-dodging...
...afraid that the world's diplomats and TIME are completely misled as to the importance of Suez pilots and the difficulty of their task. I dare say that Suez pilotage is one of the easiest in the world. Any master mariner worthy of his salt, if properly briefed by a simple memorandum on the procedure and signaling, should be able to take his ship through. I have steered ships through Suez, and compared to, say, Hell Gate, Suez is a picnic...
...essential way, been explored-it has rather been surveyed. The first problem of the people who settled in this immense and spatial continent was not to explore it but to 'lay it out'-to find the shortest distance between two points, to get the best and easiest grade across the continental divide . . . We have hunted always for the short cut, the practicable way . . . Well this is surveyordom-it is not exploring...