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Berlin will discuss the novel as a political and philosophical tract. Inkeles will talk on the political and historical background of the book, while Guerard will take up its literary aspects. "Darkness at Noon" deals with the experiences of a political prisoner during the Communist purge...
...with more determined self-help than self-denying Britons. Finletter had no need to pressure or preach. Socialist Britain, in fact, could be quite touchy about capitalist America's help. As Finletter well knew, EGA could come a political cropper if it crudely pressed a capitalist tract into Britain's hand along with the ham sandwich...
British Vera Brittain is a born tract writer who persists in doing novels. In 1933, she made her reputation with Testament of Youth, a passionate, forthright, nonfictional assessment of the lost generation. Author Brittain has never again written so movingly...
...conclusion is inevitable since Adrian and the rest are puppets contrived to voice Vera Brittain's newest tract. It is all set down with dogged sincerity and dogged prose...
...normal life, but it might also kill her. Yet without the operation, she faced almost certain death within the next few years. Pamela Frances Lamphere, now 22 months old, had been born with her bladder outside her body. This rare malformation, called exstrophy, usually causes death (of urinary tract infection) before a child is five...