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...marched off to war with the Kaiser's armies; the result (not published until 1929) was All Quiet on the Western Front, still the best item in his collection. More recent history has given Remarque the plots for mediocre stories on a Nazi concentration camp (Spark of Life) and that victim of Europe's ravening isms, the rootless refugee (Arch of Triumph). Almost inevitably, Remarque had to write his novel of World War II. A June Book-of-the-Month-Club choice, A Time to Love and a Time to Die is a kind of pale tenth carbon...
While just about everybody agrees that South Korea Assemblymen are often incompetent and sometimes corrupt. Rhee's anger also stems from the occasional spark of independence that the Assembly shows. Recently Rhee demanded constitutional amendments to give the voters the right to recall Assemblymen by petition and the President the authority to dissolve the Assembly by decree. Though members of Rhee's own Liberal Party fill 96 of the Assembly's 179* seats, the Assembly balked at such drastic pruning of its powers...
Excepting the first act performance of Robert Schwarz as Marco, and Robert Beatey's entire job as Chu Yin, court savant, the actors were very competent rather than inspired. Only these two gentlemen showed originality or real spark in their tasks, and Mr. Schwarz stumbled after the first...
There is something vaselike about the immobility of Toledano himself, though he is far from being an empty vessel. He must sit and wait for the visual impressions which are at least half of any artist's material. But the impressions obviously crowd in upon him, to spark a fantasy life far richer than that of more mobile but less perceptive artists...
...last Comet to crash had special armor between engines and tanks (TIME, March 22). Most think it more likely that either the kerosene-type fuel, which becomes highly volatile at high altitudes, exploded, or that vapor from a leaking hydraulic line might have been touched off by a spark. Others guessed that the big jet's power-operated controls, which give the pilot no "feel" of the plane, might have let him accidentally put the ship into a maneuver that ripped off the wings...