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...occupational hazards of war, perhaps even greater than boredom, danger or fear, is the compulsion to write novels about it. Victors are apt to be spoilsports who decide that victory was less important than the fractures suffered by their fragile psyches (The Naked and the Dead, From Here to Eternity). The losers wryly argue that they were pushed around in a brawl they never made (All Quiet on the Western Front). As two-time losers, Germans have become experts in the blues of defeat. The latest sample to reach the U.S. is Gerhard Kramer's first novel, We Shall...
...December came the proof: the volcano had a small but definite eruption. In 1953 and 1954 the pattern was repeated. Whenever the volcano's magnetism diminished appreciably, a period of activity followed in two to six months. The greater the change in magnetism, the stronger the activity was apt...
...California's Senator Knowland, but all knew that the President's intense words, punctuated with a fist-to-desk bang, were addressed to him. "There is no appeasement in my heart," said Ike. "I just can't believe that [Americans] . . . suspect their Government in general, is apt to fall into that trap...
They may start a war, but nobody really gets hurt. The custard pies fly in a multitude of directions, but at the end the warriors are apt to be licking meringue rather than their wounds...
...often biography is a poor compromise between conflicting aims. The author, hoping to evaluate personality, setting, and significance, is apt to fly off in all directions, leaving little or no impression of his work as a whole, or more probably lapse into a one-sideness which sacrifices accuracy for interest. Professor Irvine's Apes, Angels, and Victorians strikes a skillful compromise, no small achievement for an author whose task is the portrayal of not one but two great men, the idea which made them both significant, and the times in which they lived. It is through the common dedication...