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Three days earlier, Shanghai's Nationalist defenders had announced: "We will fight to the last drop of blood." Most Shanghailanders fervently hoped that this promise would not be kept. They regarded the Nationalist cause as hopeless, and feared that a prolonged defense would bring nothing but pillage and destruction to the world's fourth* largest city...
These changes deal a bitter blow to both crews' chances of beating the Big Red, but the situation is not hopeless. The main problem has been one of integrating the new combinations on short notice. Rouner and Hutchinson have each had only three days in their new positions, a situation Coach Bolles is trying to counteract with two practice sessions today and another tomorrow morning...
Like the unfortunate hero in Dostoevsky's The Gambler, Miss Stanwyck is essentially a decent person consumed by a hopeless passion for pitting the probable against the possible. Her downfall begins during a brief visit to Las Vegas, where she meets a suave professional gambler (Stephen McNally) and takes her first innocent fling at roulette. While her journalist husband (Robert Preston) is busy on an assignment, she takes a few more flings. By this time Barbara is a goner. Eventually she loses a wrestling match with her moral scruples, gambles away the family savings, and runs off in shame...
Finally, the author succeeds in his major purpose of making his audience understand the bull fight, its violence, bloodshed, and death. The bull is not the hopeless underdog most American think it is. In Lea's books, the bull becomes the brave animal whose fighting spirit is the prime example of valor. Man must muster all his skill, artistry, bravery, and strength to conquer the animal, and he does not always win. In painting the skillful technique which brings the bull to his death, Lea creates a picture of violence and beauty--a rare combination that makes bull fighting...
...actually scored the first point, but their cause was hopeless, even with Harvard down for a game, and the Crimson soon pulled ahead. The win was routine, even though attended by many complications...