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...Arrow in the Blue" is a puzzling book. Often it seems to leave the realm of autobiography to become an elongated essay, a psychological novel, or a volume of modern history. At times only the personal pronoun reminds us that this is Arthur Koestler writing about himself. The casual reader will have a difficult time integrating the many facets of this book, but the more perceptive will realize that this is one of the best pieces of autobiographical writing to emerge in recent years...
...years ago, it was Sept. 2 in the realm of King George II. Next morning, by Act of Parliament, it was Sept. 14. England, 170 years after most other European nations, at last switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar...
...speak up about what we have to offer in the realm of politics...
...character than the maxim of every tyranny since the world began: 'Hate me if you will, provided that you fear me.' America is wretched over the necessity for making herself feared, and she cannot bear to be hated. Her great errors have always been in the realm of the emotions...
Although the national-defense plank was not in his realm, Dulles had a hand in it, too. When he learned that the original draft leaned toward air-power-only policy, which Ike opposed, he suggested that it be rewritten. Result: a plank which called for "the quickest possible development of . . . completely adequate air power and the simultaneous readiness of coordinated air, land and sea forces...