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...thesis of Floods of Spring-that Lucifer started wrong and incurably remains so-is worthy but obvious. Angry Hero Peter Kettring, a particularly obstinate victim of the "pride of self-determination," decides, when the Civil War ends, to discard the "top-heavy thinking" of his cultivated forbears. He sets out to seek "reality" from the ground...
...must discard the idea that past routines, past ways of doing things, are probably the best ways; one the contrary, we must instead assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done...
...tempted them to abandon partially the Schlieffen plan. When he cites the Battle of Marathon he forgets that it is the classic example of the "double envelopment," a military term meaning that you let the enemy dig his own grave and then shovel him in. One cannot discard the defense as valueless with a scoff and a biting remark. Colonel Kernan disregards the two most sensational defenses of modern times--those of Russia in 1812 and 1941--which did not develop into counter-attacks until the time was ripe...
...Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, who came into power in a "legal," bloodless coup last month, still has to operate under Panama's weird, elastic, near-totalitarian constitution. Indicated for the new President was a quiet move to discard the present document (instituted by his predecessor) and return to the republic's original, democratic constitution...
...Atlantic. The O-8, the O-9, and the O10 belonged to a class of the smallest (480 tons), oldest (1918) Submarines in the Navy. Age wears submarines faster than any other class of naval vessels, and the eight O-boats would never have been recommissioned, after years of discard, unless World War II had made it absolutely necessary for the Navy to train new crews as fast as possible...