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...German situation is hopeless, and the task of Corporal Rolf Steiner's wounded platoon is near-suicidal. Its job is to stay behind as a rearguard while the rest of the battalion withdraws. In the fluid state of the front, this means only one thing, that the hapless platoon will soon be a cork abob in a sea of Russians. The platoon has small faith in its chances, but believes mesmerically in Corporal Steiner, who has assumed command from his wounded sergeant. Steiner is one of those incurably homeless men to whom gunpowder is oxygen...
...Greek characters. He recognizes their fortitude under real pain, their histrionics over emotional trifles and their bristling pride. Above all, he captures their gift for draining each passing moment of life as if it were a glass of their own villainous retsina wine. Author King overexposes and underdevelops his hapless English hero, but his color shots of Corfu are snapped with the eye of a Matisse, and Patrick's departure from the Ionian isle seems like expulsion from a demi-paradise...
...Paul passed over several senior politicians to pick 48-year-old Karamanlis for the premiership. Since then the government's halls have reverberated to his sten torian voice as he drives his subordinates on with exhortation and colorful invective. Impatient of inefficiency, he is apt to call a hapless minister, peremptorily demand action or his resignation. "Any solution is better than no solution," he snaps...
With two seven-goal splurges in the first and last periods, the varsity hockey team overwhelmed a hapless Tufts sextet 16-1 yesterday at Watson Rink. Center Bob Cleary led the Crimson scoring with three goals and four assists...
...Simmons, Lefty Grove, Jimmy Foxx and Mickey Cochrane, Mr. Mack worked his way back toward the top. In '29, '30 and '31 he won his last three pennants. This time the Depression forced him to break up his team. Not until 1948 did the hapless A's get back in the first division. By then, even Mr. Mack's players paid less and less attention to his frantic scorecard signals; Al Simmons called most of the plays from his third-base coaching box. Still Mr. Mack hung on. "If I quit," he said...