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Global Division. Amidst these grim drifts and doubts, Clayton and the Americans at Geneva hope to slow down the drift toward economic nationalism, and then to let the results demonstrate what they sincerely believe-that capitalism is catching...
...toward the shaft, finally saw hat lamps glowing in the choking gloom, heard men's voices. Slowly, fumblingly, the men divided up, began feeling their way back down the tunnel. When they reached the entrance to a drift called Main West they knew what had happened. Somewhere, far down Main West's four-mile bore, gas or coal dust had exploded, like powder going off in a gun barrel. And almost all of the mine's 142-man day shift was inside. Retching and staggering, some of the explorers tried to get in. One of them dropped...
...goggling egos in It May Never Happen are mostly those of ordinary Britons: clerks, housewives, tradesmen, or casuals who drift around the periphery of fixed society. Pritchett furnishes the wastelands of their minds with the unspoken impulses, the suppressed, half-formed resentments, suspicions and despairs that shape their personalities and behavior. Outwardly nothing much happens to these people. The reader who wants his excitement laid on with a trowel, characters forced toward some unexpected twist-ending by an inventive author, will find them unrewarding. As in the stories of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen, the excitement in these stories grows...
...Schlossberg, manager of the King's Palace, a television tavern on North Clark Street, last week analyzed the new drift...
...looks as if the book of mediation is now definitely closed. A new book must be opened, and its cover must be turned in Washington. The Secretary of State and the U.S. people must choose one of three possible policies toward China-a policy of confusion and aimless drift; a policy of complete withdrawal, which influential voices will vigorously advocate; or a policy of continuous aid to the Gimo's Government on the condition of continued reform such as has been evident in the past year." If the U.S. did not make up its mind soon, doubt about eventual...