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...Russia has one ally to whom this idea is by no means a stranger. Like the U.S.S.R., she owes her birth in freedom to a revolution rooted in an incorrigible belief in the brotherhood of man; like her, she was born into a hostile world which watched her unfolding experiment with alternating contempt and fear. To the extent that this nation is true to herself, she will understand Russia...
Once he is up against the enemy, a man fights for three chief reasons: 1) loyalty to his comrades and his unit (the highest type, long exemplified in the Marines, where organization consciousness is highly developed), 2) because he is led out of confusion and "will follow a stranger to attack a machine-gun nest if . . . officers are gone, if the stranger speaks and acts with assurance," 3) because there is literally nothing else...
...nation at war, Holmes has eloquent things to say. He was no stranger to war. Walking down Boston's staid Beacon Street one afternoon in 1861, with his eyes glued to the pages of Hobbes's Leviathan which he had just borrowed from the Athenaeum, he felt a touch on his shoulder. "Holmes," a friend said, "you've got your first lieutenant's commission in the Twentieth." Holmes returned the copy of Leviathan, went off to war and a wound in the throat at Antietam. "As he grew older," writes Biddle, "the thought of war came...
...TRUE ATTITUDE OF BIOLOGISTS TOWARD LABORATORY ANIMALS IS EPITOMIZED IN A POSTER WHICH I ONCE SAW IN THE PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL SCHOOL. IT WAS A DRAWING OF A RABBIT BENEATH WHICH WERE THE WORDS: GENTLY, STRANGER; GENTLY, PRAY...
Street of Chance (Paramount) is a twisted thoroughfare indeed for amnesic Burgess Meredith. Soon after a blow on the head knocks him into realizing that there has been a total blank in his life, a terrifying stranger (Sheldon Leonard) rushes after his taxi, hammers maniacally on the window. A tough blonde (Claire Trevor) has proudly saved the newsclips about the murder Meredith learns he is being hounded for. In a Long Island mansion, with the help of a paralytic old lady (Adeline De Walt Reynolds), he at last gets the heat turned on the real culprit...