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...dusty road north of Seoul last week, a U.N. tank commander leaned against the tread of his bulky Patton and read an order to his men: "During the remainder of the armistice negotiations, every effort will be made to avoid casualties and to demonstrate our willingness to honor a cease-fire." The lieutenant went on with specifications: no more combat patrols, artillery to be used only for counterbattery fire, the infantry to fight only to repel an attack. When he had finished, a sergeant asked: "What does this mean, lieutenant?" Answered the officer: "It means just what it says...
...Passage to India appeared in 1924. After it, Forster unaccountably banked the creative fires which had blazed through five crackling good novels, beginning with Where Angels Fear to Tread in 1905. Fireside chats took their place. Mostly contemplative, critical essays and reminiscences, these were first collected in Abinger Harvest, published in 1936. Two Cheers for Democracy brings the collection up to date...
...hundred seventy-five Radcliffe newcomers will tread daily to the Yard along with the 700-odd time-weathered 'Cliffedwellers. An extended program of joint instruction will place both male and female classes of '55 side by side in every classroom except for the sections of five large courses...
...clock one morning last week, the heavy tread of a Chinese artillery barrage marched across a Korean hillside near the 38th parallel. Sitting in a slit trench, a U.S. private caught the blast of a shell exploding in front of him. A tiny, singing splinter drove through his skull and lodged in his brain. In the foggy depths of consciousness, the private heard his buddy screaming, "Medics, damn it! Medics...
...Unvisited. Sometimes the infinite prospect of God's "desertion" was too much for even Cowper's "passive valor." "I now see a long winter before me," he wrote bleakly in September 1783, "and am to get through it as I can. I know the ground before I tread upon it; it is hollow, it is agitated, it suffers shocks in every direction; it is like the soil of Calabria, all whirlpool and undulation; but I must reel through it-at least if I be not swallowed...