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Between Two Fires. Von Einsiedel was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp near Moscow. There he found himself between two fires: the aimless cruelty of the Russians and the purposeful vindictiveness of some of his fellow Germans, who had heard about the leaflet and regarded von Einsiedel as a traitor. Wonderingly, not sure of his own motives, von Einsiedel felt himself pulled by the "magical attraction" of Communism's "well-knit, clear religion." He joined the small group of German officers, under Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, in the Russian-sponsored Committee for Free Germany...
...case, a required course should be better taught than others, else it would be wholly useless. Perhaps if the Faculty devoted less time to figuring out what the language rule was meant to accomplish and more to making the courses superbly taught, something besides an endless round of aimless revisions would come from the next fifty years of contention...
...friend Gus Taylor who, like Nick Carraway in "Gatsby" and Bill King in "Pulham," wanders through an aristocratic group without actually being part of it. His slight detachment from the over-ripe world of his friends provides Gus with both a pinnacle from which to view their fevered, aimless partying, and, ultimately, an escapehatch leading to his own salvation...
...sharp at night, but even in daylight they are dim and dull. Only its hearing is keen (its thin ears curl over to keep out insects during sleep), and its bristling whiskers have a superfine sense of touch. On his short legs, the possum meanders in a slow, aimless shuffle. As a climber he shows his greatest skill, using his strong, ratlike tail and the opposing "thumb" on his hind feet to scrabble after autumn persimmons. He cannot hang by his tail as long as legend would have it, but he does "play possum" with stubborn persistence when in danger...
When the young have been banished, and Melvyn Douglas, Polly Rowles and Philip Loeb perform as the husband, the wife and the bank president, the play takes on a nice aimless, bantering good humor. But things are a bit askew when a plot must go out for a walk before the play...