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Creeping Vines and Metaphors. Conselheiro was a genuine fanatic, a 2nd Century hermit born in the days of railroads. In his own way, Euclides da Cunha, his biographer, was as fanatical. Rebellion in the Backlands is Brazil's great classic, 476 pages of prose, thick as the jungles of...
New Britain. General MacArthur's men (Marine veterans of Guadalcanal) had won their objective on New Britain's western tip: the Japs' two Cape Gloucester air strips, 250 miles from Rabaul. With an accurate pre-invasion bombardment, with Sherman tanks, heavy artillery and pillbox-killing flamethrowers, they...
Beyond the Town. The German resistance was skillful, fanatic. But the Canadians went ahead relentlessly, day after day, house after house. They defied the Nazi flame throwers, bayoneted the enemy shock troops in the basement dugouts. Last week they drove the last German from a town where every building lay...
With time, Nakano's fanatic ardor grew. Eighty-six days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he hinted that Japan would seize Singapore, urged the U.S. to divide the Pacific into two zones and let Japan "establish an ideal new order in Greater East Asia." Seventy days before the...
Glass Widows. Tooling up for roof-prism-making cost the amateurs from $100 to $200 apiece. They were mostly middle-aged business and professional men (including a gravestone manufacturer, a dentist, a candymaker) and spent most of their spare time at the job; a few became so enthusiastic that they...