Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...news page is always something new, largely because people have a charming habit of not doing precisely the same thing every day. You call Important Sources to Confirm Anonymous Reports; you wheedle information out of truculent Persons in Authority; you write stark exposes of those whom formerly you had thought innocuous...
...thoughts as he recalls them: 'In less than 200 years, this great country was welded together by people of so many different backgrounds. They built a mighty nation and had forgotten where they came from and who their ancestors were. They had pride in only one thing -their American citizenship." That night he wrote to a friend in Nigeria: "Look, I am a changed man from today. Until now I never really believed Nigeria could be one united country. But if the Americans could...
Jack London wrote novels about rugged outdoor men tramping behind dog-sleds and drinking around rickety tables in desolate cabins in the Arctic. C. P. Snow writes nothing of the sort, but as writers he and London have one thing in common: both sell well in the Soviet countries. Snow writes of men in committees, Cambridge dons drinking port around gleaming mahogany tables, contemporary Britons struggling with love and over power. And these novels of his Strangers and Brothers series appear in Moscow and Warsaw with the same success as in London and Washington...
Snow spent last summer in Russia, and he tells with a smile of amused remembrance how he was paid for his writing: "You might write a magazine article, the sort of thing one would get two hundred dollars for here, and a few days later a young woman would come over--they use women more over there--with a package wrapped in brown paper about this big." Here he chopped with his hands, cutting off a piece of air the size of a large loaf of bread. He continued, "You'd unwrap it, and there would be a stack...
...paper was opposed by Tizard and other English scientists, on scientific grounds, Tizard and P. M. S. Blackett, another physicist, Lindemann's estimates of the effectiveness of strategic bombing five or six times too high, "Everyone knew that if Tizard and Blackett were right, the thing was not worth doing," know noted. But Lindemann was in power, and his policy was put into effect...