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...Prime Minister set the Ministry for Home Security to work. Vaguely Sir John Anderson promised ventilation, light, warmth. Department stores opened their basements, and when the big John Lewis & Co. building was hit, 700 trooped safely out to another shelter. To keep people happy, Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper announced plans for portable cinemas against dreary winter evenings. The Arts Theatre Club and ballets moved their performances to the lunch hour. Winston Churchill each day perused particulars of civilian casualties and property damage. He accelerated systems of pension and relief, and marshaled 2,200 doctors and nurses against epidemics...
...been here." For some years Wyndham Lewis has been one of the toughest, most provocative satirists alive. It is something of a tribute to the deep hold England has on her sons that in this book he plays several skillfully muted patriotic solos, better contrived to win U. S. warmth than whole symphonies of the more usual stuff. But America, I Presume is best as a casual exercise in a rare sort of anthropology...
Light Without Heat. The chill autumn of New England was mellowed by the light of great minds too. But it was a light without much warmth. Heroes of New England: Indian Summer are Henry & William James, Henry Adams, Howells, Francis Parkman. "They knew they were doomed to fight their fights alone, in a world that was more than likely to divide and destroy them. Some, like Henry Adams, were all but born discouraged. Others, like Henry James, were to spend ten years trying to solve the question where to live. . . . William James and Howells, who had come from the West...
...tested their schoolboy French on the natives. The natives' terror of the German scourge was beginning to give way to frank curiosity; after all, hadn't this been a leave area for the big blond Americans in the last war? Blitzkrieg-weary, everybody relaxed expansively in the warmth of a summer...
...demure little girl writing. Peter Helck, who turns out ads for Champion spark plugs, Goodyear tires, refreshed his soul with an antiquated locomotive in a railroad yard. Leon Karp, layout man for N. W. Aver, painted his son in rougher textures than ad clients generally approve (and with more warmth than they usually...