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Mario Lanza Sings Christmas Songs (Victor, 2 sides LP). Tenor Lanza tears into The First Noel, O Come, All Ye Faithful, and six more, with as much zest as if they were Puccini arias...
Closing the Ring tells "How Nazi Germany was isolated and assailed on all sides." Like the other four volumes it has no peer among the hundreds of books that have already covered much of the same ground, either in the zest of telling or the enormous authority behind the statement of events. Churchill's differences with Russia and the U.S. over military policy are discussed with the candor that has become his trademark and the good sense that was rarely swamped, whatever the provocation...
...sometimes indiscriminate detail that Vol. Ill often makes sluggish reading. But when he plunges into the war in Vol. IV, and takes Washington through the winter at Valley Forge, he writes with steam and fire. A bit pedestrian as a portraitist of character, Freeman handles military matters with rousing zest and precision...
...John Donne, died of a fever. Timid little William never got over the shock of her death. Next year he took another severe shock when he was thrown to the young lions of an English boarding school. In sporting tradition, stronger boys mauled the weakling thoroughly, and with special zest because of an "intimate deformity" he is said to have had. William apparently made his "adjustment" by repressing his fear and shame and hatred. At any rate, when he was 21, and a law student in London, fear and shame and hatred came roaring up through his mind so powerfully...
...misery in the immediate vicinity by bursting out of his studio dressing room, clad only in an athletic supporter, and raced hilariously around the set, while girls fled in all directions. Though Mario's literary preferences lean to body-building and movie-fan magazines, his uninhibited zest for startling pranks sometimes seems inspired by the gustier tales of Chaucer...