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Starting from the premise that "we shall lose the war unless we clear out of our minds several fundamental illusions which are minimizing our effort," James Reston's "Prelude to Victory" strikes at the manifold weaknesses of the American public's participation in the war. Essentially a study of morale, the book is seldom guilty of the looseness implied by its subject, for Reston attacks sloppy thinking only where he can prove it clearly responsible for specific failures in the war effort...
...nation will find this easy. Neither victory nor any form of post-war settlement will of itself create a millennium. Rather, we shall be offered an opportunity. The manifold tasks that lie ahead will not be accomplished overnight...
Without rationing of shortage items, no over-all price ceiling can help springing leaks; soon there will have to be rationing of dozens of scarce products, and the economic complications will be manifold...
...advantages of being a member of "Cambridge's only breakfast table daily, serving the public 24 hours a day," are manifold. As a News candidate, you will find out what makes the University tick and will gain entrance to places ordinarily barred--ahem--from the student proletariat...
...retreated to and explored (Joyce's was a Dedalean Labyrinth). Levin quotes St. John's "Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone, but if it die, it beareth much fruit." That, says he, is "the burden of the manifold texts of Finnegans Wake," and of Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Zola, Gide, Eliot, Mann...