Word: understood
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This month, when the National Association of Manufacturers gathered for its annual Congress in Manhattan, its outgoing president, Henning W. Prentis Jr., of Armstrong Cork, bespoke the general uncertainty when he asked the Government to define the businessman's new role. A few at that Congress already understood that the best deal they could make with the Revolution was as men of skill and money, not of power. They sensed that their role in it was simply to make money-hard, sterile money, but money to which the world's only remnants of freedom were still attached...
...mixtures endlessly swirl and boil. Around him were Italians, Poles, Russians, Rumanians, Germans, living in an area of employment agencies, meat markets, secondhand clothing and furniture stores. Around him too were hordes of immigrants who knew no English. Alexander Alexandroff spoke English. French, German, Polish. Italian. Hebrew, Russian, and understood several other languages besides. Soon his neighbors began to use his office as a place to receive mail. Soon they began to rely on him to write their letters, advise them about the strange ways of the U. S., or translate for them letters that they could not read...
More important is Biographer White's reappraisal of Shelley as a mind. By bringing together a mass of 19th-Century critical opinion, Author White shows that Shelley's contemporaries understood him much better than Apologists Thompson, Dowden, et al. By placing Shelley squarely in his French Revolutionary context, Author White highlights Shelley's real meaning for our time. In a day when the same old exaltation of the masses, the same revolutionary terror and dictatorship, have culminated in World War II, the family line from Marat to Lenin to Mussolini to Hitler is revealed as passing through...
...understood that two of the prettiest chorines from "All In Fun," selected by a competent, if unofficial, committee of two, were to be called in to smooth out some of the simple dance routines. The same committee, it was understood, would then escort the girls to dance to the music of Al Booris and his orchestra, later in the evening
Part III affects to be a manuscript found in a lake. Actually it is a diary of Kierkegaard's own unhappy love affair. Said he, "I am experiencing more poetry than there is in all romances put together." His problem: "Dare a soldier on the frontier (spiritually understood) take a wife, a soldier on duty at the extremest outpost, who is fighting day and night . . . against the robber bands of an innate melancholy. . . ?" In his soul-searching the diarist approaches the last stage in life's way, the religious...