Sublime

Administrative responsibility came naturally. He handled the staff adroitly and was always able to cajole crusty Cambridge printers into opening the forms and remaking a page for last-minute submissions by tardy college journalists. “In his geniality was a kind of frictionless command,” his co-editor, W. Russell Bowie, recalled.53

Hobson’s choice.

Fifteen months earlier Ike had been tromping across overgrown battlefields in France, far from the military mainstream. Now he was at the center of the Army’s command structure.

“Athletics, recreation, and entertainment took precedence in most units. Some of the officers, in the long years of peace, had worn for themselves deep ruts of professional routine within which they were sheltered from vexing new ideas and troublesome problems. Urgent directives from above could not eliminate an apathy that had its roots in comfort

The man who would be drawn in cartoons, mocked in gossip columns, celebrated in drawing rooms, sought out by enthusiasts – the man at the centre of a famous club of thinkers, writers, politicians, and scholars, who was generally regarded with the bemused awe and wonder owed to a celebrity intellectual – appears in the letters of his late twenties a

Wilson was not only antiblack; he was also far and away our most nativist president, repeatedly questioning the loyalty of those he called “hyphenated Americans.” “Any man who carries a hyphen about with him,” said Wilson, “carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready.”

Edmund Scot who came aboard from the Bantam factory. His ‘extraordinarie

For the second time MacArthur felt he had been double-crossed by the War Department, FDR, and anyone else in Washington who might have had a hand in it.