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...fiction. The author utilizes flashbacks in a most depressing and trite manner, to show a man's supposed thoughts while he is dying of a war wound. Perhaps the last few words will give a clue to the category to which this short story belongs: "But the whirlpool began to suck him down again. It was so comfortable. So easy. Sinking back, fading...fading...
...couldn't or just wouldn't happen. Joan Webster setting to sea in a small boat with the North sea equivalent of a typhoon approaching is almost credible. The naval officer going along against his better judgment is somewhat less credible. But when they are being swept into a whirlpool with the engine completely waterlogged, it requires a stretch of the audience's credulity to accept a last minute repair job that permits the boat to chug blithely away from the whirling maelstrom. Similarly, the happy ending never would have happened had Joan Webster remained in character as the girl...
Here's some of the equipment that fills the Medical Room: there whirlpool baths, two needle baths, one sitz bath, ten radiant heat lamps of various wattage, three infra-red lamps, one ultraviolet lamp, one microtherm, two shortwave diathermes, two long-wave diathermes, and an x-ray machine capable of producing a finished film in something like three minutes. This machine, one of the few college field house x-ray units in captivity, stands loaded during all games to determine fractures...
...station, the 44 children were laid in a neat row, side by side. Each child's hands were carefully clasped on his breast, each tiny fist held a flower. When the parents and relatives arrived from Milan, one Italian reporter wrote, the grisly hall became "a wild whirlpool of grief and insanity...
...snappiest journalistic terriers. In Pravda, he gave the official text for the day: the U.S. Government does not speak for the American people. Even while the parade is taking place, cried Ilya, "the imperialists with their criminally aggressive plans [are] dreaming of plunging humanity into a sanguinary whirlpool of a new war. . . . Americans carry an atom bomb in one pocket and an Easter egg in the other. Against us are those Americans who are against the American people, those Englishmen who are against the English people, those Frenchmen who are against the French people . . . but in every country we have...