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...better known figures as Charles Townsend or George III, Namier builds his historical writing on a welter of details and quotations. Yet Namier's prose does more than merely link together the treasures unearthed by his scholarship. It often takes on a sparkle completely its own--"Still George III clung... like a molusc (a molusc who never found his rock)." But Namier is an historical technician as well as a prose artist. The special merit of Namier's work is that the reader is placed as close to the evidence as is the historian...
...along played a deeper and trickier game, and its is only recently that they have begun to lend more than equivocal support to U Thant's campaign. Considered in any light, the U.N. mission was bound to raise welts on British backs, and so the Foreign Secretary also clung nervously to possible alternatives. In the shadow of Lord Home's strikingly Gaullist pronouncements on the proper function of the U.N. lay two profound fears: that the new federation would injure British financial interests in Katanga, and that the casques bleus would march firmly into any settlement of the touchy Federation...
...their hungers, in their politics, their patriotism and their personal relationships. They stood tensely at attention for The Star-Spangled Banner -and then came delirium, as prisoners and families rushed together in a frenzy of love. One elderly woman said it for all. "See," she cried as she clung to a young man. "He is my son. He is my son, and I am embracing and kissing...
...didn't say yes, she didn't say no, Shedidn't say stay, she didn't say go. She wanted to climb, but dreaded to fall, So she bided her time, and clung to the wall...
...from private schools-reversing the prewar proportions. Yet all this is far short of the country's growing needs. Nearly two-thirds of all students still quit school at 15 because compulsory attendance still ends at that age. And even while launching mass education, elite-minded England has clung to the idea that only a few children are academically educable...