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...House of Lords, Earl Attlee, making his maiden speech, vented his spleen on what he called the U.S.'s "rather outdated anti-colonialism." "I sometimes feel," said Attlee, "with all friendliness to our American friends, that they are a little apt to stand on the sidelines and leave us to carry the fight." But he too was critical of Makarios' exile. "The rebels of the past generally tend, sooner or later, to be the Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth,"* he observed tartly...
Catcher Pearson dies, but by that time Narrator Wiggen and Author Harris have made their point: scratch a ballplayer and you find a human being, a taxpayer, a batter in the game of life whose exhilaration at pitching a shutout or swatting a homer with the bases full is apt to be balanced at any time by an ignominious strikeout or a sad walk to the showers. As the theme of a novel, this carries its own banality if only because no decent reader would want to quarrel with it. What makes Bang the Drum Slowly unique in current fiction...
...today's world, the British were more apt to be grateful than angry at Pakistan's action. Pakistan's formula for membership in the Commonwealth (the same as India's) may sound intolerable to empire diehards, but it actually reflects a successful transition from the old master-servant relationship of empire to voluntary partnership in equality...
...wooden coffin after paying the cost of the bullets used to kill the victim-approximately $38.) There is an official phrase for this peculiarly Chinese variation of Communist terror: "Campaign for the suppression of counter-revolutionaries with fanfare.'''' Appropriately enough, the inventor of this apt phrase last year became Mao's No. i working terrorist. His name: Lo Jui-ching...
...army, to a soldier serving unwillingly, is apt to seem a carefully designed tyranny. Writers, especially, see military life as a kind of conspiracy to fracture their sensibilities. A lot of German soldierwriters seem no different from novelistsin-uniform anywhere when it comes to heaping scorn on barracks life. What is surprising in this book is not that the Wehrmacht produced a novelist who protests against the army, but that he makes his protest with a sardonic sense of humor...