Word: blanke
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pages devoted to it-a prettily sentimental, rather chokingly over-literary, long short story. But of course it is by no means all. The first six chapters, which are perhaps the most inactive and certainly the talkiest in contemporary literature, set up in great detail, with blank and awful irony, the effects of genius upon certain individuals-a secretary of Goethe, young Arthur Schopenhauer's hysterical bluestocking sister, Goethe's tortured, psychically castrated, piteous son-and its equally unpleasant effects upon a whole household and community. The exquisite, shriveling protocols of the formal luncheon are established with...
...without arms, men without legs, men with hollow, tubercular chests walk the streets of Madrid, Burgos, Barcelona. So do hollow-eyed women in mourning and women who look out of blank, uncomprehending eyes. Symbolic of Spain's people is the bronze statue of King Carlos in Toledo, which lies against its base with legs amputated by a shell, one arm gone and a gash from a shell fragment in its navel. Franco has decreed that the Alcazar be left unrestored, as a monument to "the fury of the Rojos...
Daybreak (French) is built on a dramatic foundation often tried and usually untrue: the device of discovering a character in a narrow corner, where he sits obligingly remembering his story for the camera. The story that passes before the blank eyes of François (Jean Gabin) in his garret room, as the police stand waiting for him on the street beneath, is strange and more worth remembering than most...
...throttle the flow of supplies without which Japan would long since have had to cry uncle. The second alternative, a deal, could never be negotiated without the thing which the embargo gave the U. S. for the first time-a bargaining advantage as visible as a point-blank muzzle. Finally, if the U. S. should choose that old Russian game, keeping the potential enemy fighting someone else, the embargo was equally useful. Closure of the Indo-China and Burma supply routes put an end to direct U. S. aid to China, which for three years had impaled...
Rending were the birth pangs. They had a nightmare quality-of belated haste to aid the Allies, to beat warring men in machines with impersonal, insufficient machines without men; then, slowly, a blank awareness that this escapist outlet was no outlet...