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...great panic" began on July 14, 1789. It lasted 22 years. In Paris, the mob had captured the Bastille. But in the countryside, "at first there was a sort of general shudder of fear. The long-established royal authority . . . seemed shaken; and . . . it was the only form of authority [the peasants] could understand." Suddenly there was a rumor: "Here are the brigands! They're coming to burn our forests and cut our wheat! On guard and arms!" All over France the peasants armed themselves and started beating the countryside for brigands who were never found. In the Midi they...
Many an old airman used to shudder at the thought of 225-hour pilots stepping into souped-up pursuits. Now the youngsters and their instructors know more about the ships, which have also been improved. If anything, the young tyros from Kelly do better on the tricky landings than do some older pilots, who have been too long used to ships which required less careful ground flying. Result: The Army Air Forces' training losses are far fewer than in the war-pressed R.A.F., whose youngsters often go into battle with half the experience which U.S. pilots have already...
...original storyteller ever dreamed of; these, and their solution, make up the rest of Mann's book. A fade-out starts Sita's child, who combines many of the features of all three, on his career. His name is Samadhi, which means Collection. (Such symmetries make one shudder to think what Dr. Mann could do with Abie's Irish Rose.) This story is told with a great writer's irony at its most bland, cruel and elegant...
...race dope. In a mile test yesterday the first Eliot boat slugged over the mile course to finish a deck-length ahead of the second Eliots. Two lengths back was a Union Boat Club eight stroked by Spike Chace, whose name still makes every good Yale crew devotee shudder...
...very first premise for writing good radio should be actually having something to say that hasn't been said before quite in the manner in which you say it." Unfortunately Arch Oboler has never managed to live up to his own dictum. His early shriek-and-shudder work smacked of the pulps he had lately abandoned, and his latter-day effusions never lose their soapy flavor even when social significance is being dragged in by the ears...