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Shocked by the massacres that his government's indecision had done so much to provoke, Premier Edgar Faure strove to repair the damage that his predecessors had made inevitable. Faure's delicate problem: to find a middle way between Morocco's urgent nationalists and the angry French colons, whose remedy is simple repression. Moderate men on both sides had been ready to compromise, but violence drowned their voices and left the field to extremists. Faure's way out was characteristic of the balancing French politician: to adopt the moderate recommendations of courageous Resident General Gilbert Grandval...
There is, as Rubin says, some indication that Wolfe in the late thirties was no longer tortured by the questions he strove--sometimes magnificently, sometimes wildly--to answer in his first four novels. Rubin contends that in the ten chapters of the unfinished The Hills Beyond, Wolfe ascends from the turmoil of his mind, and approaches some kind of artistic objectivity toward his life and toward the forces that had shaped him. In this fragment, Wolfe no longer translates his experiences directly into prose, but has begun to sift and temper them through the medium of his nearly mature artistic...
Down with the Mickey Finn. Ironically, the Armory show also marked the end of Henri's overwhelming influence (although he lived until 1929). As a portraitist, Henri strove to catch "the living instant," and he often said his goal was "to paint the greatest portrait in the world in 30 minutes." His robust bravura can still hold the spectator's eye. But today Henri's surface effects seem thin and superficial, less revolutionary than mannered Manet...
...became an instrument which the judge could adapt to certain philosophical or social ends. These men felt that it was insufficient to study cases only, without knowing the judge's own philosophical values. Thus Yale law students studied past legal decisions, but they also consciously strove to develop their own set of values, which were as important as legal precedents. "What should the judge have done?" was the constant question around Yale halls...
...aggressive youngsters get into flying instead of business or the professions? One typical answer: "Ever since I was a boy. I wanted to be a fighter pilot. It's more than a job; it's a sport." Having won his wings, the ace strove to test his plane and himself, flying faster and higher than was ordered, often bewildering fellow pilots by his single-minded zeal. He repeatedly badgered his superiors to send him to Korea. Once there, he looked for extra tours of duty, unlike his comrades had little fear of being killed in combat. A mission...