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Though Pierre Mercadier is the central figure of this book, the broad current of Aragon's story flows over and around him through four generations, with the steady popping of political and social disturbances in the background. Coincidence and the bedroom are in constant use. Aragon has a flair for the ironic or cruel anticlimax, for impaling passing figures on needle-pointed paragraphs...
...over the Washington landscape. It brings out the sober facts about how much butter we will have to sacrifice to get enough guns. It is carefully documented, and goes into thorough detail. But the abundance of facts, and the assumption that the reader can supply the general economic background necessary to understand the relation between scores of separate conclusions makes this guide to the mazes of Defense tough going for the layman. He may wish that his author had given more thought to his audience, but if he perseveres, his reward will be a logical and connected picture...
Gunther does not attempt to give us a scholarly account of the social or economic background of any of the countries he talks about. Such a task would be far beyond his capabilities or ambitions, he asserts. Instead, he has chosen to present a smooth-running account of what he saw and heard in his tour of Lain America. One cannot but marvel that he should so neatly and unfailingly pick out the right amount and mixture of facts, figures, and opinions on which to make his representative characters speak and move about. He is particularly good on such important...
...compile editorials from the U.S. press, useful to quote on the air when Goebbels is making the most of the Chicago Tribune. Our writers have the benefit of background experience and research. We propose only to hand you the stuff...
...song of "Navy Blues" the much-ballyhooed Navy Blues Sextette maintains that that sailors have the edge. Sailors, it seems, are divided into officers, and gobs. The officers, who are, of course, gentlemen, appear in the foreground only as the source of unpleasant but necessary orders, and in the background only to the accompaniment of soft music and lovely ladies, observing tolerantly the antics of the gobs. In fact, that whole picture calls up nothing so vividly as the recruiting poster outside the local postoffice...