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...teaches in girls' schools in Germany and London, is a governess, then secretary to a firm of literary dentists, who introduce her to their London intellectual set. When she writes about the way sunlight falls across a room, about the mannerisms of the minor characters who drift in & out of the plotless, amorphous story, Dorothy Richardson is both eloquent and clear. But writing about Miriam's tormented relations with men, who repel and fascinate her, she is so obscure that the reader is left guessing. In the four volumes of Pilgrimage sex never once rears its ugly little...
...scenes of English provincial life, college, intrigues in literary circles, skullduggery, betrayal, seduction, rape, theft, hanging-a dismal record enlivened by the excitement of the story. Author Jones, a young professor at the University of Wales, pictures Greene as a kind of talented Elizabethan Anthony Adverse, thoughtless enough to drift into trouble and courageous and quickwitted enough...
...extension of trade which will raise the general standard of living, the steps toward war can still be retracted. When he stated that the totalitarian states are in reality exhausting themselves while creating an illusion of strength and security, he was never on surer ground. When he described the drift to autarchy, armament, and war as a "road strewn with the wreckage of civilized man's most precious possessions", he expressed succinctly what has been said many times before, but which well deserves repetition. And when he stated that "the world is at a cross roads, but its power...
...wish," wrote General Moseley, ". . . to talk, as a private citizen, about the problems that you and I and every other loyal American must face. . . . Make no mistake, the world drift is away from democracy . . . and America is caught in that drift. There is much encouragement, however, in the results of the September elections, where the integrity and the independence of the American voter has been shown...
...upper atmosphere contains huge curling streaks, or tongues of air, said Professor Rossby, which remain at fairly constant potential temperatures and specific humidities, are not considerably affected by winds. Their rates of drift are variable. Two types of tongues have been discovered: 1) dry, usually coming from the north; 2) wet, coming from the south. A large tongue may stretch for 1,500 miles across the U. S., and 20 or 30 smaller streaks may be observed in one day, forming a roof over the entire continent. Plotted on a meteorological map they resemble a mass of partly coiled snakes...