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...devastation of our cities. The road to this disaster could easily be paved with the good intentions of those blindly striving to save the money that must be spent as the price of peace. I know that you would not wish your Government to take such a reckless gamble. I do not intend that your Government take that gamble...
Rojas himself touched off the show of opposition by a reckless move. His secret police arrested Guillermo León Valencia, the joint candidate of the united Liberals and Conservatives, in Cali, and ordered him to return to his home city of Popayán. When Valencia refused, soldiers quickly surrounded the private house where he was a guest...
...this point Novelist Nicholson keeps his story of reckless love under perfect writing control. After it. he resorts to an old-fashioned plot development that is more fortuitous than convincing. Roger and Ida marry, and it turns out that she is being consumed by something more than love's fever-a mortal case of TB. A novel as sod-bitten and fate-haunted as Hardy's The Return of the Native thus veers towards a kind of rustic Camille. It is a token of the solidity of Author Nicholson's character-building that he can still make...
...other ammunition to fire at Meyner. During the primary he sighted over the head of perennial G.O.P. candidate Wayne Dumont Jr., blasted Meyner for the state's rising budget ($342 million in 1958). To Jerseyites, who pay no sales or personal-income taxes, Forbes's specter of reckless New Deal spending may be a big-mileage issue...
...Major, musing on the problem of inhuman courage, said: "There is a difference between a man's prizing valor at a great rate, and valuing life at little." In their book, Coauthors Van Doren and Roske (a Civil War historian) are similarly bemused by Will Cushing's reckless bravery. They contrast it with the more measured courage of his brother Alonzo, a man who knew fear and hated war, yet died bravely at Gettysburg. Like many another hero, Will Cushing found it hard to adjust to peace. His final escapade in Cuba came close to embroiling...