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...clicking sequence from Pica Zapata, in which the backwoods Bonaparte is led away by soldiers to the ominous cadence of impassive peasants clicking stones; the recurrent low angle, high tension shot of the rails beside the desert station in High Noon; the lack of a final scene in The Snipe, which would have been anti-climatic in the best beat-the audience over the head tradition...
...marathon biography disposes of this notion once & for all. Though Freeman writes without grace and often loses his story in a wilderness of battle detail, he does bring out Washington's heroic stature. Simply by piling up grey mountains of fact, Freeman shows that those who snipe at Washington for not being a great thinker or military strategist neglect something more important: that he was a great leader...
...tribesmen that he was divine. The Mau-Mau is the most feared and successful of them all. From their jungle hideouts, Mau-Mau raiders burn the huts of tribesmen who go to work for the white man (at 7? a day), murder white farmers with knobkerries and assagais, snipe at British officials...
...editors do not stop with their snipe at Conant: "The administration at Harvard and the big businessmen and generals who compose the Board of Over-seas (Overseers) helped to prepare the way for the cross burning by maintaining a quota system ... and by following jim crow hiring practices which permit only two Negro teachers on Harvard's immense faculty...
Princeton and Dartmouth continued yesterday to snipe sharply at each other on the undergraduate level about alleged roughness in last Saturday's football game, but officials kept their remarks guarded...