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...single issue of the New York Times readers wrote: "It is a stain upon our national life. . . ." "It is simply mass murder, sheer terrorism. . . ." "Let us . . . dump the whole thing into the Atlantic or Pacific . . . man is too frail to be entrusted with such power...
Even when they fly still intact, rattletrap, ungainly, frail, murderous, the suicide planes are lonely and individual as faces, macabre as hearses, cryptic as death itself. And against the "men who want to die" roars up the desperate skill and clamor of the "men who fight to live." Both the intrepidity of reason, and the intrepidity of whatever the Japanese use in its place, are caught in The Fleet That Came to Stay in a relationship beyond all logic. It is not a pleasant film. It is an immemorially primitive nightmare in extremely modern dress; a dance of death...
...string of washing hung on the porch of the Smalls' shingled cottage. Small's frail mother came out as the coupe drew up in the front yard. With her was Small's sister, Irene. "Oh, you're back," said Small's mother. He grinned and led the way into the kitchen, lugging his barracks bag. "We thought you'd be coming home," said the mother. "We heard on the radio that the 86th was back. Your father said for you to be sure to come down to the factory...
...obvious candidate for the new big air job would be wizened, frail-looking 58-year-old Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, a naval aviator since 1915, pilot of the NC1 on the first Navy transatlantic flight in 1919, commander of the carrier Hornet, which launched the Doolittle raiders against Tokyo, best known as the boss of famed Task Force 58 which has swept the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo...
...Frail, white-haired composer Gabriel Fauré, director of the Paris Conservatory, listened thoughtfully. A 14-year-old student was playing a set of piano variations. The recital over, Director Fauré awarded the Conservatory's first piano prize to the fair-haired boy, saying in a voice so soft it could hardly be heard: "This youngster . . . has true musicality . . . he will go far." That...