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...conviction and intensity that the soul of the German listener is uplifted and soars in joy. "Germany can no longer be ranked as a second class power!" cries Hitler. "Be proud of Germany!" shouts Dr. Goebbels with his curious but effective gesture of clenching both fists close to his bosom as though about to tear his chest. "Be proud of a Fatherland for which millions sacrificed their lives! Strike a rogue more than once! Believe in the future-then only can you be a victor!" Profoundly the resurgent German does believe in the Fatherland's future and nothing helps...
...arrogance in Japan's foreign policy which even Mr. Kawakami's skill can not explain away. The present book deals also with the structure and problems of the new government of Manchoukuo, and expresses the pious hope that Chinese reorganization will soon permit the Manchurians to return to the bosom of a really national Chinese state. In all of which, we are left to assume, disinterested Japan would happily concur, with dulcet twitterings from above. But the book is, in the main, a capable presentation of the enlightened Japanese view, vastly more convincing than Dr. Shei's pamphleteering attempts...
According to present standards, the acting is overdone; anger is portrayed by swelling of the bosom, stamping of the feet, and vigorous twirling of the moustache, which may be all right for the movies, but is strange to Harvard Square. In spite of that, however, Eisenstein's utilizing water scenes, like a mountain stream immediately after the breaking up of a log jam, the pounding of surf over a breakwater, or the moon rising through ships' rigging over the mist of motionless, oily seas, as symbolic of the feeling of the Russian peasantry, gives the picture an appeal...
...hope to remain aloof from the world in any capacity, political or economic. Faced with recognition of this fact and its logical conclusion: the League of Nations, America let herself be led away from reality by the Republican party and by Henry Cabot Lodge, now presumably in the bosom of the God with whom his family conversed to the exclusion of even the Lowells, to whom it only listened. Senator Lodge's heavenly discourse let us in for a decade of hypocrisy and broke Wilson's heart...
Nobody expects humor in Author Tully's conscientiously grim works, but sometimes it is there. "She was beautiful. Her waist, open at the throat, showed the outline of her bosom, flushed pink and white...