Word: cooperative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is perhaps the best novel yet written by an American about postwar Germany. It is sometimes too stagey, often too self-consciously penetrating in its analysis of character. But it is honest, observant, and has a theme at once simple and troubling. Its hero, Lieut. Cooper, works in the Newspaper Section of Military Government; his job is to unearth heroes, i.e., German journalists who had bucked the Nazis and somehow survived. He squirms guiltily in his role of judging conqueror. How would he, as a German, have stood the test of the Nazi terror? What right...
...people in the stands seemed to be far more excited than Blackwell was when he shuffled out last week to start the All-Star game. Calmly, and with relaxed stance, 6 ft. 5. in. Pitcher Blackwell waited for his sign. Catcher Walker Cooper called for a fast, inside pitch. Blackwell rocked into his windup. As he let go, his long right arm snapped around as if he were cracking a snake-whip. His complicated delivery made it look as if he were about to fall down, but the ball plunked squarely into the catcher's mitt. Three pitches later...
...afternoon, his twin-engined Dakota set him down at Le Bourget. Behind a motorcycle escort with whistles blowing, he and a carful of mild, bespectacled Foreign Office experts drove to the British Embassy on the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. For three hours Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the Embassy gardens, comparing notes. Then Premier Paul Ramadier and dapper, London-tailored Foreign Minister Georges Bidault arrived with their experts. Eleven French and eleven Britons got their heads together over the veal,* adjourned to the garden veranda later for whiskey, brandy, and more happy...
...Nebraska and the Dakotas, Teal Eye runs away. Three days later the Indians attack and kill all the party except Boone, Jim and sardonic Dick Summers, a man swift and animal-sensitive, who ranks as the most vivid scout in literature since Natty Bumppo, in James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales...
...speak of politics. With Old Teacher Le Corbusier (also busy on U.N. planning), he prefers to gawk at Manhattan's cluttered masonry like any visiting fire man. The Niemeyer opinion of Rockefeller Center-"good"; of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s great 11,250-family Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town projects on the East River-"commercial, crowded, all brick and no glass...