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...child acrobats and jugglers, not to mention the dazzlingly colorful costumes--but one in which Kilty has taken great pains with the blocking and with fine details. And when he stages a big battle scene, it has all the trimmings. (He is using the wonderfully rolling translation that Brian Hooker made for the actor Walter Hampden...
...well have made up for the material deficiencies of the Confederacy. In this absorbing book, Texas-born Historian Vandiver (Rice Institute) does not hazard a guess, but notes that Stonewall's magic was greatly aided by the mediocrity of his opponents. Tactics that bewildered Banks and Pope and Hooker might well have foundered against commanders like Grant and Sherman. As it was, Jackson's greatest coups were repeatedly frustrated by the dogged resistance of the often outwitted but seldom outfought Union soldier. At the Second Battle of Bull Run, Jackson struck with sledgehammer force against an unsuspecting Federal...
...Otto Hahn, the first man to split the uranium atom-18 scientists proclaimed their "great worry" over Adenauer's proposal. One hydrogen bomb, they warned, could render the whole Ruhr Valley "uninhabitable." Worse yet, "the entire West German Republic could be rubbed out" by spreading radioactivity. The hooker: all 18 pledged themselves not to help the West German government in any way in "the production, testing or even use" of atomic weapons...
Four centuries ago, Richard Hooker, speaking from the pulpit, said that "Rule there cannot be which public approbation has not made so." Firm adherence to this principle must be reiterated occasionally. Mr. Lodge, from a large pulpit, has underscored the dogma in unequivocal terms. Such explicit assertion is essential, for illegality thrives upon that silence which is often interpreted as tacit assent...
Then Sukarno got to the real hooker: his long-cherished plan to include Communists in both the Cabinet and the prospective National Council. To justify the Communist presence, he echoed one of his heroes, Abraham Lincoln, in a Biblical reference. "A house divided against itself cannot stand," he intoned. "How can we ignore a group which won 6,000,000 votes in the general election...