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...There are those of the South (I am white) who hail the . . . decision . . . I have genuine faith that the Talmadges and the like will be trampled into oblivion with this new mode of thought that the young intellectuals of the South are developing...
...this reason that he called his last work, "a kind of encyclopedia made into a farce." He does not damn in a single motion, but piles absurdity upon inanity in the dialogue and thought of his characters. So thorough is his technique that no character-type and no superficial mode of thought escapes his treatment...
...hoped to be shot as a soldier, but when he faced the gibbet, hundreds heard him say in a clear voice: "I am reconciled to my fate, but not to the mode." He adjusted the knot himself...
...peace treaty with Great Britain provided that property rights of Britons and loyalists would be respected in the U.S., but several American states passed property laws grossly discriminating against loyalists. Said Virginia's James Madison at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787: "The necessity of some adequate mode of preventing the states in their individual characters from defeating the constitutional authority of the states in their united character . . . had been decided by a past experience...
...fast-moving, armored blitzkrieg, and strategic air bombardment, culminating in the Abomb. Korea saw both techniques disabled by physiography (mud and jagged hills) and politics (no bombs beyond the Yalu, a decision made in the U.S. in the summer of 1951). The result: a return to sitzkrieg, a mode of warfare that forced the mobile U.S. to fight on the enemy's terms. Thus it was that the most powerful nation in the world failed for the first time to win a war that it engaged...