Word: thunderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people living in a different civilization on the opposite side of the world, the events of those seven years seemed strange and complicated. Thunder out of China, Book-of-the-Month for November, makes them comprehensible to Americans...
...THUNDER OUT OF CHINA (325 pp.)-Theodore H. White & Annalee Jacoby -William Sloane Associates...
Death without Bullets. Thunder out of China is often an eloquent book. White's picture of famine in Honan is one of many moving passages...
...this book, vigorous, witty Bergen Evans, youthful professor of English at Northwestern University, swoops down on many of the world's best-beloved caterpillars' nests. His aim is, of course, to exterminate them. Sample "vulgar errors": >Thunder sours milk (the sultry weather is really responsible...
When Winston Churchill's voice, alone, against the night of Nazified Europe, proclaimed the determination of free men to remain free or die, his listeners were stirred chiefly by the thunder-roll of his defiance. Few sensed how subtly they were also stirred by the overtones of Europe's high cultural tradition reverberating through those speeches. For almost alone among the world's statesmen, Churchill is a "good European" in the Nietzschean sense-by birth a patriot of Britain, by the mind a sharer in the only unity Europe has achieved-unity of culture. Last week, once...