Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to a British Broadcasting Corp. announcer whose ears were bent rather far forward one day last week, General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Nazi warlord in Norway, sat down to the table in Oslo, reached as usual for his newspaper, found in its place two copies of the London Times, just two days...
...HELL-BENT FOR WAR-General Hugh S. Johnson-Bobbs-Merrlll...
...first smashing Nazi victories in the Balkans and North Africa, Americans began reading war and defense books with a new zeal. There were plenty to read, but three books were outstanding: 1) Max Werner's Battle for the World; 2) General Hugh S. Johnson's Hell-Bent for War; 3) Hanson W. Baldwin's United We Stand! Both Johnson and Baldwin are called isolationist. Their books show how rapidly the terms isolationist and interventionist are being stripped of their meaning by the necessities of U.S. defense, geared to the speed with which the Nazis daily revise...
...Hell-Bent for War. General Hugh Samuel Johnson never calls a spade a spade if he can possibly call it a damned old shovel. He is master of the sprightly truculence peculiar to journalistic generals plus a felicity of invective all his own. But Hell-Bent for War is remarkably restrained. It is the first full-length statement of his position by an isolationist who insists he is only a realist, and whose verbal hammer-throwing at the New Deal and those who believe that the U.S. should enter World War II before it is too late, daily delights...
...tower." Mr. Roosevelt's characterization "underprivileged" is a euphemism when applied to A1 Groot, the protagonist of the tale. Driven by the cruel necessity of keeping his wizened little body alive, this "small, old, wrinkled boy of eighteen or nineteen" pits his wits against a gang of "sucker players" bent on taking his last grimy dollar. The reality of the situation has the emotional conviction of a nightmare; the suspense, built on a wealth of realistic detail, is as gripping as a war in Europe. Though the dialogue sometimes smacks of the Hemingway-Saroyan tradition, Mailer, who incidentally hies from...