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Gallant Pacing. When the Americans landed on Leyte, Joey gallantly took ad vantage of the Japs' dread of lepers to carry out her spying. Under the Japs' noses, she mapped the fortifications along the waterfront and the location of aircraft batteries along Dewey Boulevard. If she was stopped, she just pointed to her blotched face. Using her drawings, U.S. planes from Mindoro blasted the batteries to smithereens...
...Mare has made two trips to the U.S., bringing back impressions of train travel that might give Americans a shock of recognition-"and the dread tolling of the engine's bell-surely, apart from that monster's prehistoric trumpetings, the saddest sound in Christendom-as one's huge metallic caravan edges slowly through Main Street...
Like Philosopher George Santayana, who was at Harvard with him and who lives in a convent in Rome, Berenson likes his high remoteness from a world which he thinks is becoming more & more authoritarian. "I dread a world state run by biologists and economists ... by whom no life would be tolerated that didn't contribute to an economic purpose . . . Art can offer the surest escape from the tedium of threatening totalitarianism. It mustn't be reckless, freakish, fantastic, but must console and ennoble...
...bread in the pans when the cannons began to fire"-and the Battle of Gettysburg was under way. When Sallie Broadhead turned to her diary at nightfall, "the town was full of the filthy Rebels," cock-a-hoop with success: "all is quiet, but 0! how I dread tomorrow...
...hours the world lived in strange, unreal excitement, spoke in lavender & top-hat terms of "démarches" and "settlements." It even seemed as though Moscow had toned down its radio attacks on the U.S. "They"-the dread pair of antagonists-were going to get together to talk out their differences, as if only the wrinkle in Molotov's forehead and the puff of George Marshall's lips had prevented complete agreement between the U.S. and Russia all these months. An anonymous Nanking man-in-the-street was more realistic: "Heng hao" (very good), said he. "Now will...