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...Getting it accepted by the Army was slower work. Eventually Harry Burns was ready to give up; above his desk he pinned a bunch of red tape (to make himself feel at home) and slouched back to ruminate on horses. But Keyser kept rushing in where colonels feared to tread. Eventually he sold the War Department...
...Shhhh," warned Dupesceau, lightly cutting a grassy caper in geometric circles where officers dare not tread; 'we're all geniuses--but don't tell them or they'll send us to Officers' Training School." Mast Report: Ensigns Laverne and a Flange have applied for a summary court martial...
...need, in A Passage To India, one of the century's most sensitive and provocative novels. Last week Novelist Forster, who has never written a novel since, found himself the subject of an unexpected revival. Two of his earlier novels (Howards End and Where Angels Fear To Tread) were reissued by Alfred A. Knopf. Two others (A Room With A View and The Longest Journey) were reissued by New Directions. Novelist Forster and his work were analyzed by Columbia University's Lionel Trilling in the first important For ter study in English...
...This indifference to the commonplaces of liberal thought makes the very texture of Forster's novels. . . ." The theme of Forster's first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread, is the "violent opposition between British respectability and a kind of pagan and masculine integration" in the character of Gino Carella. "For the poor, lost, respectable British people, Gino may serve as the embodiment of the masculine and pagan principle, but Forster knows that he is also coarse, dull, vain, pretentious, facilely polite and very much taken with the charms of respectability...
During the first full day ashore, the 1st landed all of its regiments. By morning it had some 40 artillery pieces and 15 antitank guns in position to fire. It had three tanks, but one had lost a tread in the sand. These weapons were not enough for what was to come. Only the bravery of the men and the fire of the warships offshore saved Gela and the landing...