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Father's Coat. First stop on their itinerary was London. The mayor, in a natty, brown-checked suit and a vivid yellow-striped tie, was unabashed to find his British welcomers all dressed up in formal attire. Downing a quick Scotch-on-the-rocks at London Airport, he gazed at the dense horizon of top hats and sighed. "I guess I'll have to buy one," he said. "I haven't worn a topper since last St. Patrick's Day parade." At a luncheon a few days later, Wagner was properly turned out in formal dress...
...enough for man"; he believed: "To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of God are alike impossible." Walter Reuther's pattern of life was molded by his father, Jacob's son Valentine, a union organizer and an ardent Socialist. Walter retains a vivid boyhood memory of going to Moundsville Penitentiary with his father to visit Socialist Eugene Debs, sentenced to ten years under the Espionage...
...widespread insecurity, Americans have become acutely aware of the complex demands of national security, and increasingly fearful that many historic American attitudes may no longer be adequate for the present day. The problem of the informer has arisen in new and vivid forms since the war, largely as an outgrowth of the intensive search for subversion of recent years...
...dunks potato chips in champagne, begs for "more sugar" in her martini, artlessly boasts of posing in the nude, feels that it is all right to do "anything," with Ewell since there is no danger of his wanting to marry her. Ewell is already equipped with a vivid, Mittylike imagination (he daydreams that his wife's girl friend, his secretary and a beautiful nurse all try unsuccessfully to seduce him), and he is swept by alternate tides of temptation and remorse as Neighbor Marilyn gambols about his apartment in a series of elaborate costume changes, each more inviting than...
...Shall March Again reaches a telling climax as the spokes fall out of the German war machine. Fuzzy-cheeked youngsters try to hold positions that crack divisions could not defend, commanders cannot reach the Führer because he is dillydallying at his own birthday party. But these vivid vignettes cannot quite redeem the novel's major flaw-that its men whine louder than its bullets...