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Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower last week relaxed the airtight censorship on political news which had prevailed in North Africa since the Allied landings last November. The smell of intrigue was worse than even the profoundest pessimists had imagined. Wrote unemotional Drew Middleton, correspondent of the even more unemotional New York Times, just back in Algiers from a trip to the Morocco bailiwick of General Auguste Nogues...
This paradoxical pronouncement that love & hate are coeternal is the profoundest wisdom that Spender has to offer-half a lifetime after he, a sensitive rebel, repudiated the numb world of 20th-Century English idealism to look for new answers to life & death...
...wrote: "One word is sufficient. But if one cannot find it?" She could not find it. But she rubbed innumerable words and insight against each other, achieved a luminous friction between lyric and narrative art. Her feminine intuition was strangely modulated by an obsession with time, and struck its profoundest resonances from the sounding board of death...
Saint-Exupéry brought plane and crew safely back. His gas and oil tanks were pierced, but the rubber lining sealed them. He also brought back a personal proof of the profoundest of Christian texts: Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit...
Between Two Worlds is a continuation of World's End (TIME, June 24), Upton Sinclair's attempt at a fictional history of the 20th Century. That assignment would be tough enough to paralyze the soul of the greatest artist, the profoundest analyst, whom the 20th Century could produce. To Upton Sinclair, who is neither, it is so much duck soup. There are and will be far more important treatments of the theme; but it is unlikely that any will be more easily written-or read...