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Even the priest becomes infected by Joan's passion--and it turns him into a horrifying criminal. Similarly the Polish man of action, corrupted to the point of insanity by the moral sickness of communism, chops his country to pieces. Afterward he can, like the priest, only shrug and murmur "I did it for your good...
...daunt the wiliest old pro: her orders were to get hold of the Italian naval code book. Within a few weeks of first meeting the shapely Betty Pack, Italy's naval attache, Admiral Alberto Lais, was so scuppered by her that he surrendered the code with hardly a murmur. Italian apologists maintain that Lais, who died in 1951, was actually so ungallant as to give his mistress a fake cipher book. Undeniably, however, British Intelligence thereafter proved uncannily adept at forestalling Italian fleet movements, notably in the March 1941 sea battle off Greece's Cape Matapan, where...
...damp earth like freshly minted gold florins") and longer passages ("the light limped from rock to rock on its way like a wounded bird on its way upward. For a moment, it rested on the peak of the opposite mountain, seemed to pirouette upward, then disappeared. The mute murmur of evening, like the tigress's melody, enveloped the monastery"). Naturally, Kazantzakis chooses more brutal images in the second section, as when Madrid's "divine, sun-washed body was dissolving" during a bombing...
When a baby is born with a certain type of heart murmur and is later found to have these valve and septal defects, something must have gone wrong in the womb. But what? And when? Infections may cause some of the valve defects, but not the majority, and not the hole in the wall. What makes the impoverished Negro family from Vian (pop. 930), near the Arkansas border, so interesting to doctors seeking clues to the true nature of the trouble is the fact that four of the offspring had essentially the same heart defects as their mother, although they...
...postwar U.S. breakup of Japan's zaibatsu, the huge and powerful prewar cartels that controlled practically all of Japanese industry, was the most ambitious antitrust action in history. The reemergence of the zaibatsu has been hardly less ambitious. With scarcely a murmur to mark it, the steady reconcentration of the three biggest zaibatsu -Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Sumitomo-has been going on quietly but steadily since 1952. The three now account for more than one-third of Japan's total industrial and commercial business-and they are not finished yet. Last week executives from three big prewar Mitsubishi heavy...