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Dispassionate Wonder. Renny's Whiteoaky common sense drives Dilly crazy. "Patronizing brute!" she screams, waving a poker at him. But the master is so unmoved that when Dilly bends over "to sweep the hearth," he, "dispassionately observing her figure from the rear, wondered how he ever could have expected her to have a good seat on a horse." "Her achievement," Critic Edward Weeks has said of Author de la Roche, "makes me think of Trollope and Galsworthy." In fact, Author de la Roche's achievement seems to be that she knows that Jalna's changeless orchards, spaniels...
...Brute Issues. Triumph and Tragedy is the sixth and final volume, the epilogue, of Churchill's tremendous history of World War II, which he modestly calls "my personal narrative." In this volume, the thunder of military crisis is past; the tides of the war against Germany have been turned at Stalingrad and El Alamein, and the book is suffused with the glow of anticipated victory. The chronicle begins with Eisenhower's invasion of Normandy, which opened the land approaches to Germany and made Hitler's defeat certain, though not easy, quick or cheap. Churchill tells the closing...
...summer of 1944 made it urgent to come to a political arrangement with the Russians about those regions . . . Difficulties in Italy had already begun, owing to Russian intrigues." On May 4, 1944, Churchill suggested to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that a paper be drafted for the Cabinet on "the brute issues between us and the Soviet government," and raised the question whether the Allies were "going to acquiesce in the Communization of the Balkans...
...many readers who commented on the brute ugliness of Rumania's Communist Boss Ana Pauker after the cover story came this reminder: Ana Pauker has no glamor But it's very often said That her sickle and her hammer Make a fellow lose his head...
Reaching Sanare, the throng poured into the sports stadium. There stood a wonderful brute of a tractor, aflutter with flags and painted a fire-engine red. The timid countrymen hung back, black eyes shining-although as members of the Friends of Sanare Society, they were all part-owners of the tractor...