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...decorated with superb internal communications, which favor the defender. Moscow is the focus of ten radiating railroads, and even though the Germans have cut six of those roads, the stumps are still available for throwing troops into this or that sector of the front. There are, besides, eleven trunk highways and numberless small roads running north, west and south from the city. Moscow teems with busses, trucks and cars available for urgent transport...
...supernumeraries in this novel include a 300-year-old tree trunk which shatters transcontinental telephone connections, an owl whose electrocution weakens a wire, a boar whose drowning plugs a culvert and washes ballast from a canyon railroad track, a young telephone linesman, a power dispatcher, a highway superintendent for the Donner Pass section of U.S. 40, a junior meteorologist, a plane pilot, the flangers-and the dangerous steam rotaries which clear the railroad lines of snow, a dam superintendent, the men who handle the highway plows . . . men, beasts and things, in short, infinitesimally at work against the enormous collusions...
...Arthurian joy of combat is much stronger than economic determinism in directing human activities seems somewhat dated at this time. In the literary sections Brooks preaches, as he has already done in several previous volumes that, "Literature has been out on a branch. We must return to the trunk." By which he means that modern writers in adopting Joycean techniques and concentrating on one "dirty little pocket" of the whole expanse of life have detached themselves not only from the masses but even from intellectual circles. And Allston predicts that in five years Eliot and Joyce will be forgotten...
...SARATOGA TRUNK - Edna Ferber-. Doubleday, Doran...
Miss Ferber's noisy, flashing manner never really gives you a period, but always makes you enjoy the fraud. Saratoga Trunk is so neatly made that the scenarists need only bracket the non-dialogue as stage direction, and call it a half-day's work...