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...washed for one undergoing such hardships, and she spends the first half of the picture being assaulted by the animals of the forest, including the hero, I suppose, and the second half suffering from fatigue and exhaustion. The end result in every case is a sharp cry and a headlong dive into the arms of her bronzed guide...
...destroyed the balance of power upon two continents . . . To the cool-headed and skillful manipulations of our calculating former ally, we innocently responded in exactly the way they wanted us to. I submit to you that in the destruction of Germany and Japan and in the headlong demobilization of our military establishment we upset the balance of power to such an extent that unless it can be restored promptly and effectively war with Russia is likely...
...dismiss a war or a death with a sentence or two yet spend pages on a picture of Tabitha disciplining her child. This makes for a breathless narrative, intentionally short on description and drama. But although "A Fearful Joy" rolls this narrative past its readers in a headlong rush, it stops frequently to breathe, to question, and to laugh...
Luks's picture of a toper hurtling headlong out of Carey's (see cut) was a case in point: the artist had given new zest to an already hackneyed theme by putting it in brutally simple terms and by contrasting the plight of the flailing drunk with that of his nerveless, serenely floating hat and stick. The artist was found dead in a Manhattan doorway in 1933; his art still hangs serene...
Obviously and wisely, General MacArthur was not pouring troops into the Korean battle as fast as he could.. There were two good reasons why he refrained from a headlong effort to reinforce his hard-pressed men: 1) even at the maximum rate of build-up which U.S. forces in the Far East might now attain, they had little or no present chance of launching a drive northward against the Communists; 2) with the Communists still menacing other points in the Far East (e.g., Formosa, Indo-China), it would be the height of recklessness to be sucked out of position...