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...dramatized African novel, like so many other adaptations, including Joyce Gary's dramatized African novel, Mister Johnson, loses the swell and amplitude of fiction without achieving the drive and intensity of drama. It is in some ways too obvious, in others too obscure; its scenes are chop-pily hitched on to one another like so many train coaches-and with the engine unfortunately at the wrong...
...occasional pub in which you see a few sodden wretches mournfully ruminant over a glass of bitter beer-if you have gone through this, then, my boy . . . your guts will ache with passion for the Happy Land, the glorious country with the bright Sunday evening wink of the Chop Suey signs, the roar of the elevated, the sounds of the radio . . . and the peaceful noise of millions of Jews in the Bronx slowly turning the 237 pages of the New York Sunday Times...
Nuclear Thunderbolt. Not until mid-July, after he had pushed his conscription bill through a reluctant Bundestag, did Adenauer discover how justified his uneasiness was. Then, like a thunderbolt, came press reports that Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had proposed that the U.S. chop its armed forces from 2,800,000 men to 2,000.000 by 1960, in keeping with the development of nuclear weapons. To Germans the so-called Radford plan-and Sir Anthony Eden's prompt hints that Britain, too, planned to "go nuclear"-clearly foreshadowed a reduction in the number...
...Japan, even China. While there may be a technical surplus, shipping costs from many exporting nations are so high that millions of consumers all over Asia cannot afford all the rice they need and should have. Thus, by growing rice in Australia, close to the markets, Chase hopes to chop shipping costs to a fraction of what it costs the U.S., for example, to ship rice to Japan...
...boxing him in. Bulganin had begun the boxing process early in the trip, when he said in Leningrad: "I'm sure our friendship will endure. Nothing and nobody can disturb these relations, and in the Soviet people and in the Yugoslav people there's sufficient force to chop off the hand of anyone who dares...