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...this crackling culture across the Atlantic." American jazz, painting, architecture, and highbrow paperbacks all suggest to young British intellectuals that the U.S. is "the country one must go to in order to see what is novel and important," and that "Americans have been into the dark places, and the lighter places too, of the human imagination and have found some answers for us all." Added Daily Telegraph Pundit Peregrine Worsthorne: "The ambitious, young, lower-middle-class Tory sees America as an attractive kind of society because there is no doubt that in America, if you have what it takes...
...Jarrell writing about writers is another matter; his virtues are exactly those that Alfred Kazin lacks. Jarrell understands that what is serious need not be solemn. The scales of justice are part of his equipment, of course, but they are a lighter model than the vast, slow-swinging mechanism that burdens Kazin. After following Jarrell's ardent and scholarly puffs for the short stories of Kipling or the poems of Eleanor Taylor, the reader feels that life will not be supportable without these stories or these poems. Kazin's approval of a writer, however well thought out, inspires...
...aviation gasoline, benzine and lubricants that kept Adolf Hitler's military machine running. To protect Ploesti from air at tack, the Germans had made it into a colossal land battleship. A ring of heavy antiaircraft guns formed a perimeter around the refineries that circled the city; lighter flak guns were concealed in hay stacks and groves, mounted on factories, bridges, water towers and church steeples on the target approaches. Crack Luftwaffe squadrons, aided by Rumanian and Bulgarian air force units, gave Ploesti an aerial umbrella...
...elimination of timber beams or their steel equivalent made ferro-cement cheaper, lighter, thinner, and the new process of production incomparably faster...
...explore the secret innards of matter. Two enormous accelerators, one at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, the other near Geneva, Switzerland, spew out protons with 30 billion electron-volts of energy. Yet in some ways protons are clumsy tools for basic research; for many subtle experiments, electrons (much lighter negative particles of electricity) are better. But electrons are so much more difficult to handle that scientists have never been able to give them really high energy. The Cambridge accelerator is designed to lick that problem...