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...Author Dos Passes had given clearer reasons why men of Tyler's intelligence work for the world's Chuck Crawfords; if he had shown behind his sharply observed surfaces more of the intricate counterpoint of political machinery in action; if he had made the danger implicit in Chuck's kind-and Tyler's-more edged and more explicit; if he had not skidded into regrettable Sandburg-&-ketchup prose poetry this could have been a much better book. Even as it stands, it is a clear, vivid warning and bracer to that man-in-the-street...
...Point & Counterpoint. Madame Chiang rose to answer each question, sat down again when she had given her answer. Question: Is there any truth in reports that China is not using her manpower to the fullest? Madame Chiang showed a touch of anger. China, she said, is using her manpower to the extent that she has munitions. The President had said the need was for more munitions. China has trained pilots, but she has not enough planes or gasoline...
...Counterpoint. No U.S. Congress had ever been on such a spot as the 77th. It was hard to imagine in all the history of parliaments, a time when ordinary men had to grapple with issues of such magnitude; they surpassed the grasp of many a legislator from the creek bottoms. But in its own way-which is not the way of direct approach-Congress tackled them...
...this 457-page forest of quotations, no child's eye will readily find the Tree. To follow even the simple counterpoint the book makes on the theme of the world's creation would take a well-annotated score. From the Norse "Erst was the age when nothing was; Nor sand nor sea" the creation melody runs through the Egyptian "Heaven had not come into being, the earth had not come into being," comes finally to Genesis: "The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." Editor Smith apparently believes repetition...
Jamie Brooke's grandnephew, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, now Raja of Sarawak, said some bitter words on this matter in Australia, in ironic counterpoint to Grand-uncle Jamie's complacency: "Brass hats . . . lah-di-dah old-school-tie incompetents, who are responsible for the fantastic position in Malaya, should be sacked immediately. When I left, I was given to understand that, should Sarawak be attacked, it would receive air support. The only protection over Sarawak today is Dutch...