Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most sinister figure around Helsinki is that of Lieut. General Grigory Savonenkov, the Soviet minister, a bullyragging, bellowing, table-pounding type. Savonenkov's arrival in Helsinki in mid-January was the first tip-off to the Finns that trouble was brewing. At that time I filed you a brief piece about his arrival, and the Moscow censor deleted his military title and all reference to his general's uniform. This time I inquired whether he was still wearing the uniform. The reply from a competent Finnish observer: "I think he sleeps...
...press was now rigidly controlled, but a profusion of brief, tragic items charted the brooms' progress. Samples...
Amid the whine of bullets and whoompf of mortar shells, Jerusalem took brief hope last week from the arrival of the storks. Each year the birds winter in Africa; it is a good omen when they stop in Palestine on their return to Europe in the spring. But this year, instead of staying several days, they left quickly. Arabs and Jews shook their heads...
Such is the content of Son of the Moon. It is a novel of some passion and excitement, and the slow accumulation of brief scenes, following the pattern of Passage to India, is very nearly incompatible with such passion. Here & there the novel has a kind of Oriental power of hallucination: experiences blend and retreat; characters dissolve; a spell is cast by the very remoteness of the happenings so precisely described. At such moments the novel seems a blend of several books, about an India that seems partly familiar and partly a new world of still formless action...
...foremost figure skater is a nationally known amateur from St. Paul, Minn. The record of her gay blades includes two summers of appearances in St. Paul's ice shows and dizzying twirls in more benefits and revues than she can name off-hand. Last winter she took a brief fling at monarchy as Queen of the snow and ice carnival at Carleton College, in, Northfield, Minn...