The tricolon, putting phrases into groups of three, is perennially effective. Once you start to notice these — be they in newspaper articles, politicians’ speeches or TV advertisements (that’s Wavell was working at the War Office when Army officers refused to act against Ulster unionists in March 1914; the government was expecting Unionist paramilitary opposition to introduction of devolved government in Ireland. His letters to his father record his disgust at the government's behaviour in giving an ultimatum to officers – he had little doubt that the government had been planning to crush the Ulster Scots, whatever they later claimed. However, he was also concerned at the Army's effectively intervening in politics, not least as there would be an even greater appearance of bias when the Army was used against industrial unrest. [17] First World War [ edit ] Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth A competent reader often discovers in other men’s writings other perfections than the author himself either intended or perceived, a richer sense and more quaint expression. Portrait of Michel de Montaigne by Salvador Dalí, 1947 In Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays ( public domain; public library) — the same indispensable volume that gave us the great philosopher’s ideas on death and the art of living— he writes:

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It’s time for a president who cares more about America’s workers than he does about America’s union bosses.” That’s, arguably, a false opposition. But my point isn’t By the end of the year, although still on half pay, Wavell had been designated to command 2nd Division and appointed a CB. [39] In March 1935, he took command of his division. [40] In August 1937 he was transferred to Palestine, where there was growing unrest, to be General Officer Commanding (GOC) British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan [41] and was promoted to Lieutenant-General on 21 January 1938. [42]

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Not that such a book can tell all of a man but ‘Other Men’s Flowers’ surely puts a large marker on the place of poetry in the world. One man’s, Wavell’s remarkable knowledge of and memory for, poetry, is that marker for inspiration. It shows he was a military man through and through, that he was a man of wide reading but based to an age before poetry had one of its periodic bursts into new territory such as the ‘new’ poetry consolidated and moved on by the First World War. A few poets of this period are included though positioning their poetry style may pre date it. Classics and the Orient are much in vogue, obviously themes and compositions that held up well in Wavell’s view on life and poetry. Classics and the Orient were still ‘popular’ as themes for poets and subjects that were still important for study at University and likely needed for many potential high level students and professions. No doubt elements of public take-up were led by the mystery still pertaining to the East and what is now spoken of as ‘the Great Game’. Mead, Richard (2007). Churchill's Lions: A Biographical guide to the Key British Generals of World War II. Stroud: Spellmount. ISBN 978-1-86227-431-0. If the classical orators have modern counterparts in the realm of the written word, pre-eminent among those counterparts are the authors of opinion pieces. Here is persuasion overt, persuasion front and center. The Wavell was working as a staff officer when the First World War began. [18] As a captain, he was sent to France to a posting at General HQ of the British Expeditionary Force as General Staff Officer Grade 2 (GSO2), but shortly afterwards, in November 1914, was appointed brigade major of 9th Infantry Brigade. [19] He was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres of 1915, losing his left eye [20] and winning the Military Cross. [21] In October 1915 he became a GSO2 in the 64th Highland Division. [5] The project has produced an exciting and innovative publication that intrinsically embodies the elegant but underused printing technique of letterpress … that has allowed and encouraged many hitherto solely image-based artists an opportunity to operate within the realms of 'copy writing', providing them with a platform from which to sound off any phrase, slang discovery, polemical essay or related literary form … the participants produced works that responded to the given brief of a letterpress printed text piece. (Quoted in Cooper, p.116.)Aristotle ordinarily heaps up a great number of other men’s opinions and beliefs, to compare them with his own, and to let us see how much he has gone beyond them, and how much nearer he approaches to the likelihood of truth; for truth is not to be judged by the authority and testimony of others; which made Epicurus religiously avoid quoting them in his writings. This is the prince of all dogmatists, and yet we are told by him that the more we know the more we have room for doubt. Wavell ( not a Lord when he put this collection together in 1943) said in his introduction that the poems were noted down as favourites by him and with the help of his family in reminding him of their favourites he would read and recite for them.