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...Finally, faint radio signals from a radio range came in over his set. Blair homed in on them, crossed Alaska's northern coastline just one minute off his schedule. He refueled near Fairbanks, roared east at 25,000 feet across Canada, munching a roast beef sandwich between gulps of oxygen. Nine hours later, he set his Mustang down on the runway at New York's Idlewild airport. He was the first man ever to fly solo across the hazardous North Pole route in a single-engined plane...
...Smail's review of the Advocate in Tuesday's issue of the CRIMSON. It seems the smug Mr. Smail sees the reviewer Mr. Kaiser as too virtuosic to have much value in his criticism; he challenges Mr. Kaiser's right to use the phrase "the not-so-faint susurrus of hosannahs," which "makes a mockery of the English language." He recommends that Mr. Kaiser get a good dose of Fowler's "Modern English Usage." As it turns out it would seem that Ezra Pound, about whom the review was written, is the one who needs Fowler. (P.S. I am sure...
...needs a dose of Fowler's "Modern English Usage"; I do not challenge his right to use an obscure word like "susurrus" (though he will be losing readers by doing so) but I do ask that he not use it in a phrase like "the not-so-faint susurrus of hosannahs," which makes a mockery out of the English language. He might renounce exclamation points and obscure Latin quotations, too, while he is about it. This petulance must not be taken to mean that the current reviews are poor jobs. On the contrary, they seem quite intelligent. All they needed...
...cause of Eban's excitement: a proposed Security Council resolution condemning Israel for bombing Syria in retaliation for the shooting of seven Israeli soldiers (TIME, May 14). Eban's faint failed to influence the Council: while he was out, it adopted the measure 10-0, with Russia abstaining. The resolution ordered Israel to 1) suspend work on its project to drain Hula swamp in the demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria, which had caused the flare-up, 2) return Arabs whom it had deported from the area to make room for Jewish settlers. The sponsors of the resolution...
Riffling the dead leaves of a bankrupt dream, neo-Marxist Mailer sees one faint hope, "socialist culture." This idea, which ex-Stalinist McLeod passes on to Lovett as a heritage-just before Government Agent Hollingsworth does him in-seems to be the precious "little object" the poor fellow has been nursing all along...