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...while it tells all, Gilbert's final volume tells it mainly from Churchill's viewpoint. Like the installments that preceded it, Never Despair gives little indication that, as his early critics noted, Churchill was often "a genius without judgment," a man with "a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain." As Manchester aptly observes, Churchill and his archenemy Hitler were alike in more ways than either would have cared to admit: both were brilliant orators capable of inspiring millions; both possessed wills of almost superhuman intensity; and both were meddlesome war leaders who constantly second-guessed their generals...
...like all his finest designs, is not a monolith but a suggestive collection of smaller pieces, here a kind of lyrical single-family mountain village consisting of separate stucco boxes for living room, guest room, master bedroom and kitchen. The forms are stark, but Predock's scheme -- a casual zigzag arrangement that follows the terrain, roof lines that vary from flat to peaked to pyramidal, a restrained polychrome palette -- mitigates austerity. Gravitas without menace...
From Alphabet to Zigzag, a shelf of season's readings offers children the delights of seeing and learning. -- The year's ten best books...
...first meeting with the foreign press, the barrel-chested Namphy exhibited a whimsical personality. He spoke as he cut a zigzag path through a room in the palace filled with busts of past Haitian Presidents. When a woman reporter pressed for specific answers about his plans for the country, Namphy pinched her cheek. Said he: "We have only been the government three days, and those have been holidays. Give us a break...
...experience. At the end of the book, Calvino decides to let the Reader in on his secret. He has thrown in an "Index" at the end of a collection of stories. The index looks like a table of contents in which Calvino reveals that what had seemed like a zigzag wandering from beach to shop to zoo is actually a highly formalized pattern. Calvino assigns to each chapter a combination of the numbers one, two, and three, like the combination of a lock. Each number corresponding to a different kind of experience. Yet even as he lets the Reader peek...