Word: pale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then Neumann gives the life story of each of the passengers. He arranges these lives in four groups: "The Heirs," "The Confounded," "The Enthusiasts," "Destruction Through the Brain." Heir to the life of the spirit is the ascetic, The Pale One, Moyshe (Moses) Wasservogel, orphaned long ago in a Carpathian pogrom, named by his saviors after "that other who was picked up out of the stream of life." At nine-and-a-half Moyshe knew the Talmud and the Torah, at 15 he was drafted into the Tsar's Army...
...Schlessing, a gross, uncontrollably brilliant Viennese financier, seducer, Superman, whose power is built on blackmail and near-diabolism. This story, like most others in the book, shows a virtuosity in action narrative that few detective story writers could match; its significance is that Schlessing, the tenth character, and The Pale One, the first, are the two spiritual poles of Jewry...
...epilogue in which all ten come together in the desert has an eloquence that proves Robert Neumann, for all his irony and sometimes mannered facility, has wept by the waters of exile. His last symbol: though it is Schlessing who drives the fated bus, it is The Pale One who sees the land of Zion...
...light rain began as the train neared Charlottesville. The President relaxed; grave and pale when he entered the train, the decision that he had made seemed to strengthen him. It had been a week of swift decision: he announced the release by executive order of Navy planes which, to be resold to the Allies, were flown at once to Buffalo, en route to Canada; by the same device he had made available more than 500,000 Lee-Enfield rifles, machine guns, ammunition, 755. But the great strain of the week had been his last-minute efforts to prevent Mussolini...
Ministry he chose General Charles de Gaulle, 50, a lanky, pale, mustached mili tary innovator who for 20 years has pounded home one point in theses, con ferences, articles, reports: if France was to meet Germany on equal terms she must have the motors of offense -tanks, trucks, motorcycles, airplanes. Charles de Gaulle had not long graduated from elite St.-Cyr when he matriculated into a tougher school -World War I. He served actively in Poland in 1920, inactively as a post war staff officer under Petain, then in Syria, then in Paris. Only three years ago he became...