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...small boat, as the sappers returned. "Be of good comfort, Master Trimmer, and play the man," urged the press officer. "We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out." After the press man edited the exploit, of course, the haircutter became England's darling and the War Cabinet itself deliberated over where his prowess might next be suitably employed...
...tendency to exploit situations, in fact, seemes typical of this entire novel, and so Faithful are the Wounds raises a question both in literature and in ethics. Authors must take their characters from the people about them combining traits and features into composites. But when he borrows from life--unless revenge was his motive--a writer takes care to change the locale, the time, any detail which might embarrass the subject he has chosen for his literary portrait. In Faithful are the Wounds, Miss Sarton neglects such precautions. The novel has, for people who have lived through the event...
...position to date: in Patton tanks, spread 50 yds. apart, some 3,100 yds. from ground zero, and in new M59 armored personnel carriers 3,900 yds. from ground zero. Just as soon as monitor teams reported a safe level of radiation, the armored column would roll forward to exploit the atomic attack, ready to pin down whatever remnants of enemy power were left...
This puts the Government in the position of being able to exploit the taxpayers' envy of each other. No longer do the taxpayers ask the unifying question: How much should we pay? They ask: Who should pay what? All modern tax debates, including the one just concluded, turn on this point. And the new U.S. tax law reflects the principle of envy. If the new long form for computing taxes is even more complex than the old, it should not be blamed upon bureaucratic obscurantism; it rises from the enormous pressure from taxpayer groups to correct particular inequities. Hard...
Although the early Alexander Kordan spectacle is as littered with scenery and overstuffed with a plot as most of the later Hollywood efforts to exploit India, its youthful sentimentality is somehow still far from sticky. Perhaps the picture succeeds because the actors are genuine Englishmen who look as if they belong in the country. All of them, that is, except the native villains. They are played mostly by Americans...