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...total German strength in the west. By simple arithmetic, it would seem that General Eisenhower had only to keep his armies butting against the wall for another five or six weeks to reduce Nazi resistance in the west to impotence. But before any result could be achieved by such primal methods, he would probably be faced with exhaustion and loss of morale in his own troops, despite his massive reserves. The enemy knew that the arithmetic of a coarse slugging match worked both ways, and the keystone of his strategy was to exact such a price as to discourage...
...Justice moved my great Maker; Divine Power made me, and supreme Wisdom and primal Love. . . . All hope abandon, ye who enter here...
...Wherever I look," he said, "I see men quarreling in the name of religion -Hindus, Mohammedans, Brahmos, Vaish-navas, and the rest. But they never reflect that He who is called Krishna is also called Siva, and bears the name of the Primal Energy, Jesus, and Allah as well -the same Rama with a thousand names. A lake has several ghats [bathing-places]. At one the Hindus take water in pitchers and call it ' jal' ; at another the Mussulmans take water in leather bags and call it 'pani.' At a third the Christians call...
Leopard By Her Bed. Beryl Markham came to the subtlest and most primal of continents when she was four, to a farm that was painfully hacked out of the dense Kenya forests near Nairobi. Her principal childhood companions were her hard, taciturn, horse-breeding father, some half-naked Negro huntsmen and a ferocious bulldog hybrid named Duller, who somehow survived abduction (from the foot of little Miss Markham's bed) by a leopard, which...
...edge of a desolate section of fog-ridden moors, the grey, ancient English prison of Bleakmore was almost impregnable, had harbored so many generations of convicts that it smelled "of the primal basic filth of old humanity, of the things forgotten when the oldest cities began." Although fogs sometimes came down while convicts were working in the quarries and on the moors (blotting out the prison road in an hour), convicts who escaped under cover of it were easily caught because all outlets were guarded. When a young convict asked, "What's the chances for a stoppo [jailbreak] ?" oldtimers...