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...woman fainted. While waiting for the boat (the White Star Liner Georgic) in Liverpool, Miss Lutyens stored the statue with her other baggage in a basement. Meanwhile Liverpool, too, had an air raid. When she returned for the baby, she had to dig it out from under a heap of bomb-strewn rubble. She trundled it to the dock in a commandeered sausage truck. She was really quite worried that something would happen to the baby. But nothing...
People also have tried to forget the characters, who mouthed their lurid lines in the worst school of European ham acting. There was Camilla Desmoulins (he longed to "embrace Liberty on a heap of dead bodies"); Louis Antoine de Saint-Just ("for Revolutionists there is no rest but in the tomb"); Danton ("I wanted the youth of Paris to arrive in Champagne covered with blood . . ."). People even managed to forget Jean Paul Marat '"When a man lacks everything ... he is justified in cutting another's throat and devouring the palpitating flesh"). But one man they never could forget...
After the dazed world had stared a while at the rubble heap that had lately been France, people began to wonder what victims were in the ruins. They wondered first about trapped U. S. citizens, trapped British subjects, French politicians, generals, diplomats, finally got around to wondering about French writers. In particular, they wondered what had become of Aviator-Novelists Andre Malraux, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Surrealist Novelist Louis Aragon, Dadaist Cut-up Jean Cocteau. Thanks to the human dislocation, the censorship, the splitting of France into occupied and unoccupied areas, it was almost impossible to find...
...year's heap of good books and bad, some 50 were outstanding. Some of these emerged because they were popular, some because they were soundly researched or written, a few because they may endure. The list...
Touchdown we want heap more...