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...times ex-Senator Rauschning's book has a querulousness that suggests not Newman but the Roman ex-Consul Boethius (circa 480-524), who in The Consolation of Philosophy complained of his enemies while awaiting execution after his Rauschningesque failure to cooperate with the Barbarian Ostrogoths. He also has some of Boethius' wordiness, and indulges a nostalgic yearning for his farm and blooded heifers, which he lost when the Nazis raised a sign: Rauschning, traitor to the people, lives here...
Bible of U.S. naval practice is the official statement of Naval Policy. No naval officer, Jack Towers included, may depart from its precepts in public speeches, Congressional testimony, Navy councils. Periodically reviewed and revised by the Navy's all-high General Board, the current statement of Naval Policy (circa 1940) decrees that the naval air service shall be "an integral part of the naval forces...
Logan Pearsall Smith is a New Jersey-born expatriate of the first diaspora (circa 1880). Smith does not like expatriates of the second dispersion. Least of all does he like their chief anti-Miltonians, Expatriates Ezra Pound and Thomas Stearns Eliot. They, he charges, are Delilahs in a cunning campaign to shear the literary locks of the Puritan poetic Samson. Once more Smith raises the now famous question: Why does Ezra Pound...
Chad Hanna (20th Century-Fox). Chad is a stable boy in upper New York circa 1840. When Huguenine's One & Only International Circus comes to town, Chad joins it as roustabout. He takes a fancy to Albany Yates (Dorothy Lamour), the high rider, but marries Albany's understudy (Linda Darnell). He slugs it out in a free-for-all brawl with a rival circus, takes over the ringmaster's duties when Owner Huguenine falls ill, quarrels with his wife, leaves her, soon returns in contrition. That is about...
...title is a little misleading. As an intellectual volcano, the Mark Twain of this book is tired and nearing extinction. Some of the material was dictated circa 1898, but most of it after 1906. Twain had previously written his great books (the first half of Life on the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn). He had met all the right people, shaken all the right hands. He was utterly lonely. For most of his life Twain remained, as he still is, the last major U. S. literary voice...