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...long past midnight with ex-sergeant cronies. Now the ex-sergeants are out of the picture, and Batista is alone. The Strong Man is a big boy now. As one Cuban says: "Batista does not love and does not hate. He will sacrifice his best friend and pardon his bitterest enemy if it serves his purpose." This political formula has not made him popular, but it works. Smiles Batista: "I am a dictator with the people...
...even patches of overwriting and murky thinking can dull the final powerful effect. For Invisible Man is no simple catalogue of hard-luck adventures in a world where might is white. Before it is over, Novelist Ellison's hero can face up to one of life's bitterest questions, "How does it feel to be free of illusion?" and give an honest answer: "Painful and empty...
...ally and possible rival, Lawyer Swart, once tr'ed-and failed-to make his fortune in Hollywood (he played a bit part as a giant). A strident anti-Semite ("No Jewish votes are wanted"), he shares Strydom's Anglophobia, but reserves his bitterest contempt for the native four-fifths of South Africa's population. Swart once dramatized his plans to get tough with the Negroes by appearing in Parliament with a cat-o'-nine-tails tucked under...
...bitterest complaint was that East German machinery, consumer goods, medicines and food are being shipped off to Russia. All that is left for the Germans is shoddy garments and ill-tasting food. "There are shirts available only for men boasting neck measurements of 42 or 43 centimeters," groused a Berliner with a 38-cm. neck (15 U.S.). Five-Year Plan pencil sharpeners, wrote Stenographer Ursula Hollman, produce nothing but "crooked points." Worst of all, snorted Housewife Elli Dau, is the unrationed liverwurst. "After roasting it, it is still indigestible. Even our dog shrank his nose and shook his head disapproving...
...been the bitterest fighting and the most gallant fighting I have ever seen," said Colonel James Adams of Monterey, Calif. "We've tried every approach to that mountain, we've crawled up every finger of the ridge. That's right-crawled. You can't climb up it. It's like a razor. There haven't been any prisoners taken by either side on top of that mountain...