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...express his disappointment more politely but still shakes his racket, bounces a ball hungrily between serves, rolls on his back when he falls down. Such gestures have often been mistaken by critics as an indication of frivolity. Actually they are the inevitable manifestations of a character in which the salient quality is solemn, almost neurotic determination...
...most of them know that he is now Aircraftman Shaw. In his own lifetime Lawrence's fame has grown until his world-wide shadow is more than man-sized. From Revolt in the Desert, his own abridgment of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom* many a reader knows the salient facts of the most monumental chapter of Lawrence's career. His good friend Robert Graves's Lawrence & the Arabian Adventure filled in some further gaps. Now Liddell Hart, also a friend of long standing, attempts to answer all possible pertinent questions about Lawrence and to place...
...make the political events more understandable in the light of the political theory. The contributing causes of the Revolution are made to stand out vividly in the student's mind. Although his lectures are well filled with specific facts, Mr. Doolin has an enlightening habit of slipping in salient generalizations at the critical moment. His ability to put across the basic principles of an age or a series of events is developed to an extent uncommon in courses open to undergraduates...
...brazenness which has made her famous, Japan, represented by M. Hirota, has demanded that the Soviet Union withdraw her troops from Southern Siberia, since their presence is taken by Tokio as an "unfriendly gesture." Nothing, of course, is further from the Kremlin's mind than to leave the Vladivostok salient wholly unprotected, as Molotov said in so many words, discarding diplomatic disguise. It is perfectly true that the Soviet garrisons and the lower territory itself will be lost instantly when war begins: Manchukuo is so placed that the Japanese will have no trouble whatever in splitting the Maritime provinces...
There is one salient fact which stands out of all that is being reported and written of the middlewestern farm revolt; some farmers are willing to sell at the current price level, and are being restrained from doing so only by the most inflammatory and militant devisements of their fellows. The gospel preached by the pay leaders of the movement, I am aware, is in direct opposition to this. Their argument runs that the NRA is intolerable, because it is running agriculture into the ground and making it impossible for any farmer to retain his solvency, but if this were...