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...Unprepared. It had long been plain that labor, freed of its wartime no-strike pledge, had also cut loose from the Little Steel formula, was ready to move swiftly and decisively to keep its wartime wage rate. It was also plain that Washington was completely unprepared to meet the shock...
...world could not get used to Russia's new idea of Russia. Shock and deepest pessimism resulted whenever the Russians (sometimes with skill but never with tact) revealed their conception of Russia's place in the postwar world...
...will shock readers not merely because it is an impassioned, often hysterical defense of the Prussian tradition, but because, with the ink of the peace treaties barely dry, it brusquely awakes the war-dazed U.S. mind to the fact that suddenly there is no longer any such thing as "subversive" literature. The very freedom for which the U.S. has been fighting demands that such books be given a hearing...
...quotations above indicate, "You Touched Me" frequently depends for its humor on the shock of ribaldry, but while it's not as tender as "The Glass Menagerie" it's never really vulgar...
...most part the physical remains of Tokyo were of the West. Structural steel and concrete had survived the shock of war; the flimsy Japanese houses had not found protection in white squares of paper hung on their gates to propitiate the fire gods...