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...still have not faced up to what the total peace-waging requires. We still stagger from crisis to crisis, with the initiative left to the enemy. We still treat each country as a separate problem, instead of as part of a unified global strategy." We are "spreading ourselves too thin...
...consul in Paris never directly denied the poet a visa. State Department officials contradicted themselves thin winter, however, in explaining why Emmanuel never received his visa. Secretary Dean Acheson said that the poet withdrew his application before it was acted...
...based on the Ernest Hemingway short story, My Old Man, in which a son's affectionate reminiscence of his jockey-father subtly reveals the old man as a heel. With no subtlety at all, the movie uses the original's French and Italian backgrounds to give a thin illusion of novelty to a spavined horse-racing plot. There are also a few twists that owe less to Hemingway than to successful prizefight films from The Champ to Champion...
There are still a few book editors old-fashioned enough to care chiefly for good books, but in an industry increasingly geared to "the big pitch" they are a thin remnant. One of the best of them, Maxwell Perkins, died three years ago after a legendary 37-year career with Scribner in which he discovered or helped push to fame such men as Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Marquand and Thomas Wolfe...
...Magda, the author hastens to say) are passing their exile in Mexico City, eating high on the lotus as they await admission to the U.S. With them are the king's chamberlain, a villain as cold as a Danube carp, and a sadistic international financier, who keeps thin, boned whips in his bureau drawer...