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...nostalgia for the brave old days is not conservatism. It is the conservative's business to find how unchanging principles apply to the ever-changing facts of life, not to deny that the facts have changed. British conservatism today rarely speaks in terms of principle; consequently, the British right is scarcely heard in public debate, leaving the field to the anti-American leftists, from Attlee to Bevan to Driberg...
...convolutions?the experiments in which he planned, built and flew the world's first really workable helicopter,* and more recent work in which he has helped bring the device to its present state of windmilling efficiency. Today, at 64, he is not only an honored pioneer of the brave, oil-spattered world of pre-Sarajevo aviation but also the paramount prophet of a completely new era of flight...
...fight, in the hand-but was able to keep going. When they reached an outlying station of the city's elevated railway, Ctirad Masin, who hid under a car, made it to West Berlin in one jump. The other two got there safely a little later. Thus three brave men had outwitted and humiliated thousands of Communist police...
There are some brave souls who attempt to define recession in specific terms. The results are just as baffling. To retailers, a recession is a drop in sales, but they will differ as to whether it is a 5% or a 20% drop. To manufacturers, industrial production is the yardstick; to labor leaders, unemployment; to Wall Streeters, stock prices...
...spite of their petty feuds and cynicism, most of them fight well. Author Nimier can write crackling scenes of ground combat, and he uses combat to expose the personalities of his men, not to show off his qualifications as a war novelist. But whatever they are, cowards or brave men, Nimier's hussars live on the page, right up to the bullet that gets them...