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...oratory about U.S. defenses during the campaign, he might have expected to take over a department comparable in style, power and esprit to the Union forces at First Bull Run. But he knew better. Working side by side with Tom Gates for a month before inauguration, he came to comprehend the vastness of the 2,500,000-man U.S. armed forces soon to be at his command. They are second to none, and far and away the most powerful force in the history of warfare. U.S. Air Force bombers prowl the skies on day and night alert throughout the world...
...comprehend South American problems...
...major Roman Catholic artist. He is rich, successful, greatly loved ("fame is a powerful aphrodisiac''), and he is also dead. He has "had it." The act of love and the creation of beautiful buildings have become empty of meaning. Baldly stated, this spiritual situation is hard to comprehend. But by means of Greene's great novelistic art, the powerful magic of a born and practiced fabulist, the reader is compelled to understand and share such desiccation of soul. As British Critic V. S. Pritchett says of Querry-in a sense of contemporary man-"He can face...
...Ernie Levy is something of a visionary. Even as a child, he seeks to understand the meaning of God's design; he aspires to be a Just Man. It is Ernie Levy's effort to comprehend the role of the Just Man, his rebellion, his eventual return and resignation to suffering that are the heart of the novel...
...church unity is more pathetic than peculiar to behold. It is pathetic because it reveals quite clearly that even after some 2,000 years of bloodshed, burning and all manner of proselytizing in the name of the Christ Jesus, Christians still are impelled by his example but unable to comprehend the principle of his action...