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...years later, Luther himself married Katherine von Bora, an ex-nun, who bore him six children. He became the model for future German papahood, according to Bainton: he appeared to love his children dearly, yet he was stonily unforgiving when disobeyed, and was known to cut up his son's pants to mend his own: he wrote the children gaggingly sentimental letters while he was away from them and sometimes called them "idiots" when he was home...
...Hemingway style, once a poetic blend of tension and despair, is hardly more than a parody of itself. The love scenes are rather embarrassing than beautiful, the language of love forced and artificial. With his truculence, his defensive toughness, his juvenile arrogance, Hemingway's hero quickly becomes a bore who forfeits the reader's sympathy...
...headed east through the long twilight of the 55th parallel-which also crosses Moscow-over the frosted spikes of southern Alaska, and rumbled southward to bore through the storms that lay down the spine of the Rockies. At 2 a.m., in the cold, sub-zero blackness eight miles above the earth, she found the telltale bend in the Missouri River on her radar, opened her bomb bays, and sent-not a bomb, but a long flash on her radio...
Then Squadron Leader Louis Sebille wheeled his Mustang around in the Korean sky, and bore down for the kill. With him he took himself, his plane, and a whole truckload of the enemy...
...strictly un-American." One U.S. officer thought she sounded like a Korean who might have lived in England. And she was nowhere near so effective as either Sally or Rose. A veteran master sergeant complained: "Hell, Tokyo Rose used to entertain you. This babe's just a bore. Now if she'd only play some Benny Goodman or something like that, she'd get some listeners...