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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...section this year will be largely on an experimental and small-scale basis, it was explained. It will start work immediately with certain communities which have already begun discussions with the Harvard specialists on their local school problems...
...Hitler let the British down; nothing happened. There grew up the curious notion that they could win the war "comfortably." Sacrifice on a national scale was not asked, hence not made. For eight precious months Britain slept on, until there was a rude noise in Norway...
...knows all the answers yet, but there is considerable agreement in informed circles that 1940 is not 1916 or 1917. In other words, the large-scale training into which the Harvard community plunged itself before the first World War is not likely to be repeated now--or at least...
...German air attacks on Britain during most of last week were on a smaller scale than the week before. German communiques indicated that flying weather was bad, but except on one night bad weather did not deter the R. A. F. from bombing German factories, freight yards, airports, canals, and forcing all German radio stations to shut down...
Continually, in all his life's work, Thomas Mann has interested himself in the study of the artist, the superior man, the genius. Usually his method has been elaborately symbolic; in The Beloved Returns it is direct. On the scale of such colossal fables as Joseph and The Magic Mountain this new novel must be classified as "minor"; and, relative to their all-but-unfathomable subtleties, it might seem almost transparent. But it is by no means minor, by no means so straight-edged as it looks. To the readers whom it will bring to the edge of their...