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...other, grimmer ways, the Middle East last week continued to claim the West's attention...
...Snows of Russia. Guderian's autobiographical Panzer Leader is in many ways the most revealing book written by or about a German general since World War II. Like a lot of his colleagues, Guderian finds the ivory tower of professional soldiering a convenient retreat from the grimmer facts of Nazi life. Concentration camps, persecutions and the like were Himmler's business, a "secret" that was kept in a "masterly" way. Guderian's business was war, and he writes about the military side of war with a fullness and clarity that military historians will be grateful...
Allied newsmen in Korea, who hang on the words of briefing officers and whose expectations of peace rise & fall daily and sometimes very steeply, pronounced the situation grimmer than at any time since the conferences were resumed in October...
George neglected to say what France's young painters would eventually learn from Gruber. Most of them are still experimenting with Picasso's big, free, arbitrarily distorted forms and Matisse's arbitrarily souped-up colors. They were not yet inclined, apparently, to follow Gruber's grimmer, narrower path...
...shot of Lowell on TV raised the question of whether TV and newsreel companies ought to take pictures of wounded U.S. fighters before the men's families are given official notification. To any family, official notification of a casualty is grim business, but accidental notification can be grimmer still...