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According to Heilbut's debatable thesis, after Pearl Harbor the German Americans were thought of as just one more group of aliens. After World War II, the McCarthy period seemed to strike an ominous and familiar chord. Mann, who had found in California his Eden, came to dismiss it as "an artificial paradise," America as a "soulless soil." Einstein complained that Americans, shortchanging their idealism, were not American enough. Psychologist Erik Erikson once wrote that only in the U.S. could Freud's prescription for human dignity, Lieben und Arbeiten (love and work), be realized. But he became "increasingly...
Hadzi's extensive research for the Copley Place project reveals his thoughtful approach to commissions. "The gates are welcoming, but it has to be about Boston. New England and America. I thought of water and seamen from the harbor and so the different angels of granite and water are like seamen's knots." One of the recurring problems with fountains, he adds, is how to get the maximum water effect with the minimum water...
...fire that had killed 28 Enterprise crew members during training maneuvers off Hawaii in January 1969. Still, Captain Kelly had just recently learned that, after commanding the ship for 3½ years, he had been recommended for promotion to commodore. Although a civilian pilot was advising Kelly during the harbor entry, the skipper declared, "I am totally responsible for what happened." A Navy investigation will determine whether Kelly's new broad stripe was lost in the mud, along with the proud ship's dignity...
According to the Swedish report, the minisubs are between 32 ft. and 50 ft. long, carry a crew of two to five and are propelled in some cases by treads, in others by conventional screws. One small sub, the commission said, navigated the shallow channel into Stockholm's harbor during a visit by the U.S. fleet last September. The vessel came within one mile of King Carl XVI Gustaf's palace on an island in the center of the capital (see map). The Swedish navy also attributes the failure of the October search to the minisubs. "Sonar didn...
This is an historical and personal footnote to the Editorial and Dissenting Opinions on the John J. McCloy Exchange Scholarship. Right after Pearl Harbor, friends of mine in what was then the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service asked me to come to Washington to use what little influence I might have to prevent the expulsion of the West Coast Japanese Americans. These friends were social scientists, students of public opinion, cognizant of the loyalty of the Japanese Americans to the United States, and also of the mounting pressure on the West Coast--a combination of greedy landowners, jealous of the more...