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...going to say something which will astonish you. The first step in the re-creation of the European family must be a partnership between France and Germany. In this way only can France recover the moral and cultural leadership of Europe. There can be no revival of Europe without a spiritually great France and a spiritually great Germany...
...coming of chastity, clean silverware and crumbless tablecloths to the pioneer Southwest. The bearers of this culture, according to evidence presented here, were waitresses brought out from the East and Midwest 50-odd years ago to staff the Fred Harvey system of depot lunchrooms. As history, this thesis might astonish even the late Mr. Harvey. As light-horse-opera, complete with cowboys, Indians, a rattlesnake, a railroad and Judy Garland in leg-of-mutton sleeves, it has its points...
...Marshall of Paterson, NJ. intoned a "prayer," especially composed for the occasion: "Grant me, O spirit of Reason . . . plenty of three-pipe problems, that I may avoid the cowardice of 7% cocaine*. . . . Grant me ... the meditative breakfast at morning; the unexpected client in the nighttime. . . . Strengthen me not to astonish the good Watson merely for theatrical pleasure...
Goebbels' ascendancy did not astonish those who know him and Germany. He has been portrayed to the world as a jack-rabbity little mouthpiece for Adolf Hitler. Actually, he is smart. He has a kind of courage. He understands the forces at work in the world well enough to pervert their meanings into brass-bold and effective propaganda. And it has long been apparent that when the Third Reich came to crisis-as it is now in crisis-power would go either to Goebbels' radical "leftist" wing of the Nazi Party, or to a "rightist" army clique...
Over & over, in the context of world war, these essays shift from an easy equability to the sort of fierceness with which gentle men sometimes astonish bullies...