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...President Kennedy, popularity was the breath of life-and now he was breathing of it deeply. Texas was supposed to be a hostile political land, but for 23 hours he had been acclaimed there. Conservative Dallas was supposed to be downright dangerous, but he had just come from a warm airport welcome and along much of his motorcade route in the downtown district he had basked in waves of applause from crowds lined ten and twelve deep. What was about to happen must have been the farthest thing from his mind...
...Room Nineteen is one of the bleakest stories about a woman ever written. It takes the reader over 38 blunt, brutal pages through the life-and death by gas-of Susan Rawlings. She is a career woman who has married one of her own emancipated kind -a successful journalist. Step by step, she withdraws from her husband, her children, and finally the world itself. There are no hysterics or overt scenes of disorder or despair. She simply rents a shabby hotel room and secretly goes there certain days in every week as if to meet a lover, actually...
Food, flashlights and tools could be sent down to them. These sustained life-and sanity. But the passage that had been drilled was not nearly wide enough in diameter for a human body, no matter how emaciated, to pass through it. In trying to drill a shaft wide enough, the rescuers ran into endless, maddening failures. While families and friends of the trapped miners, along with more than 200 newsmen, gathered around in agonized vigil, the rescue team's drill bit deeper toward Fellin and Throne. With every turn of that drill the danger increased that the rescue efforts...
...knows better. To the ordinary gob of the U.S. Navy, World War II was 90% boredom, 9% infuriating trivia, and only about 1% was composed of that combination of terror and exhilaration in which battles are decided. Surprisingly little of this has come through previous accounts of what life-and death-was like for the anonymous masses of men jammed into the seagoing ovens plying the Pacific, largely because most World War II books have been written by admirals and reporters...
...cold opportunist, Ruprecht commits his anti-Nazi brother to a concentration camp, drowns a companion, betrays a business associate who is plotting against Hitler, sends off a dozen of his factory workers to serve as medical guinea pigs. Ruprecht is a kind of lago beyond the reach of life-and the credibility of the reader. If he is meant to represent all those people who were corrupted by making an accommodation with the Nazis, his motivation is too simple. Pure greed does not sufficiently account for all of Ruprecht's vices...