Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Nobody hates cities more than patriarchal U. S. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. To him Manhattan is a "great huddle" whose skyscrapers are "one of the most infernal inventions." Nevertheless it was in Manhattan's great huddle last week that the Museum of Modern Art put on a huge exhibition of the life work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The 71-year-old architect went to Manhattan himself to install the exhibition...
...eyed man in riding boots and breeches and a dark whipcord tunic looked down on the sparkling sea from a huge plane. He had finished reading his dispatches. The steward came along the cabin balancing a tray. "Tea, sir?" The man declined it. Then with a pleasant sigh the man leaned back in his seat, opened a book of Browning's poems, and lost himself...
...poetry reader Was General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Commander in Chief of Britain's Middle East Forces, on his way to Crete to inspect new British establishments there. At Suda Bay he heard reports from the expeditionary officers and toured gun emplacements. One of the huge guns was fired, and Cretans who stood around cheered and clapped as if an Italian ship had been sunk before their eyes. They talked exultingly of Suda Bay as "an eastern Gibraltar." Sir Archibald heard with satisfaction of the raid on Taranto (see p. 20), of R. A. F. cooperation in Greece...
What about the economic and ideological arguments for intervention? Stripped to their bare essentials, they constitute straight imperialism, a twentieth century version of Manifest Destiny. The argument runs like this: If Germany wins, she will dominate huge areas of the world's best markets. Our foreign trade may make up only seven per cent of our national income, but it is a vital seven per cent. With our major customers forced to deal with Germany, we will have a catastrophic economic collapse, and in the ensuing dislocation and poverty, native fascism, encouraged by Hitler's success, will rise...
Doughton conceded that huge defense expenditures could not be put on a pay-as-you-go basis, but he urged that every effort be made to cut other outlays and meet them with now levies. He added that a new tax bill would be offered to the next Congress when it convenes in January...