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Cause of Freedom. With each succeeding volume, Churchill's canny grasp of the changing world situation and Allied strategic necessities becomes more astonishing. His endless stream of memoranda to subordinates, to F.D.R., to Stalin, are magnificently informed, range from the gravest military decisions to a recommendation (to the Minister of Economic Warfare) to try a John Steinbeck novel. Reading them-and even a Churchill memo on cleaning destroyer-boilers is readable-it is possible to feel the urgency about things large & small that the man felt himself...
...Alien Forces." How had a seemingly sure victory been snatched from the U.N.'s grasp? The first official explanation came in a communique issued last week by Douglas MacArthur. The supreme commander accused "the Communists" of sending "alien Communist forces" across the Yalu River and of concentrating possible reinforcements behind the "privileged sanctuary" of the Manchurian border. Said he: "While the North Korean forces with which we were initially engaged have been destroyed or rendered impotent ... a new and fresh army now faces us, backed up by a possibility of large alien reserves and adequate supply within easy reach...
...tendency to become too clever for wrath, weakens him when he is compared with Swift. Compared with Voltaire's, his imagination is drier, lacks picture and lacks nature too. A kind of middle-class gentility preserved him from the great disgusts, the unspeakable horrors which greater imaginations could grasp. The prose is, however, a superb vehicle for the pamphleteer and any page of it is a model of the art of conducting unfair arguments. He was a highly original artist and the art lay in the transmuting of disruptive debate into a kind of classical Mozartian music. The plays...
...this department, I should like to thank you for the interest expressed in your editorial of October 5," Comp. Lit. Complaint." Nothing would please us better than to be able to meet this very amiable complaint by enlarging the number of our undergraduate courses. And your editorialist seems to grasp very well the circumstance that would hinder such enlargement--the fact that we are really a coordinating agency, staffed through the cooperation of various departments, which quite naturally have their own demands to meet first...
...Bright" must be an allegory, because it is too long to be a joke. In four scenes Steinbeck has attempted to illustrate a theme adequately handled many times before: that true love is more important than anything else. Evidently he was afraid that his audience would be unable to grasp the subtle complexities of this idea, because it is repeated numerous times during the evening. The last scene serves as a summary to make sure the more uncomprehending members of the audience catch...