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...have so far hampered movement, the German demand has greatly increased since war began. Almost exclusively agricultural, the Balkans depend in turn on Germany for industrial goods. Every Balkan nation lives in fear of some sort of revisionist aggression. Caught in a triangle more tragic than any dramatist could invent, Central Europe depends on Germany, fears Russia, looks to Italy for police protection. After the Finnish collapse, Scandinavia too fell under the strategic hegemony of the totalitarian powers...
...forest reserves, the oil reserves, the region of Thousand Springs, where underground rivers pour from the cliffs in enough volume to provide water for all the cities of the U. S. ("Here in our own America we have the manpower, the wealth, the natural resources, the genius to invent and create. We have the industrial skill to release that ever-flowing stream of new inventions and greater productivity wherein lies the future of our own America. I don't say to you, close your eyes and have faith-I say to you, open your eyes, look around...
...book is a summary and evaluation of the known facts and of the more sound, or persistent, interpretations, on Shakespeare, his life, his medium, his work, what it means - and doesn't mean - and how it is acted. Where there are no facts he makes no effort to invent any. His own remarks are distinguished by unusual common sense. The common sense changes Hamlet from Weltschmerz in tights to a gallant and proficient Renaissance prince; proclaims that Shylock cannot be whitewashed but is a definitely anti-Semitic creation ; underestimates such dull-acting but extraordinary poems as Troilus and Cressida...
There he still lives in the pink house where he was born, filling endless notebooks with his sharp, detailed sketches, turning out his statues in a vast, litter-strewn studio. "I invent nothing," says tireless Sculptor Maillol, "no more than the apple tree can pretend to have invented its apples...
...Later, the snakes emerged above ground and fought their way back to 'respectability.' To help accomplish this, they had to invent one substitute after another within the eye, to take the place of the lost lizard-eye features. The fact that the snake eye is such a bunch of ersatz thus sheds light, for the first time, upon the habits and history of the first serpents...