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...Whim of Iron. "What Forster wants to know about the human heart must be caught by surprise, by what he calls the 'relaxed will,' and if not everything can be caught in this way, what is so caught cannot be caught in any other way. Rigor will not do. Forster teases his medium and plays with his genre. He scorns the fetish of 'adequate motivation,' delights in surprise and melodrama and has a kind of addiction to sudden death." He has, says Trilling, "a whim of iron." And "to accept Forster we have to know that...
...program that lacks a sponsor. They'll shove in, instead, something else unsponsored, like "recorded interludes," movie gossip, or E. B. Rideout. If they sell the time, all well and good, but too often a perfectly good program will be shoved off the air at the drop of a whim. It isn't only swing music that suffers, either...
Author Ormsbee's hero is Abner Coe, an American who is forced to join the French in the Maginot Line through the accident of having been born in Paris. In civilian days Abner was a music critic, bedding down when the whim took him with a lady newspaper correspondent...
...good deal deeper. From all angles it adds up in the end to a check on the freedom of the press. It shifts the choice of reading matter from the public to the City Council, who may grant permits or refuse them at its very will and whim. At the same time it is a step on the dangerous road to an inbred, provincial, and correspondingly one-sided press...
...bumper wheat crop to help feed hungry Britain; 2) that Dust-Bowl farmers would have money in their pockets to carry them through another dry spell; 3) that pessimists who thought the West's marginal wheatlands should be given back to the desert had reckoned without the whim of changing weather...