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...appeals to the proletariat and her symbols of revolt are imaginative. The world of which she writes is chaotic, bloody, violent, filled with crimes of perversity, such as are suggested by a recollection of Loeb & Leopold: how they removed his glasses and philosophically slit his throat. Man's conquest of nature, primarily his conquest of space, is symbolized by quotations from the notes of the Wright brothers, by technical discussions of flight, by a glimpse of a young aviator awakening. These are contrasted, in a sequence whose pattern is not clear, with scenes of the horrors of modern society...
...exuberant but anxious student called us up Saturday morning--exuberant over his previous night's conquest of Weeks Bridge with bottle and automobile but anxious to know if he were the first to accomplish this feat...
...Mussolini is reaching out with his mailed fist to drag us back into a more primitive age when conquest was respectable and did not offend the moral and legal code of international society as it does today...
...Spanish, empire," but also with the vast sweep of ocean where Spain's enemies concentrated their attempts to destroy her power. Philip Ainsworth Means's imposing history of the Spanish Main consequently includes colonial problems as well as accounts of pirate raids, unfamiliar items on the conquest of Peru, discussions of Indian psychology and developments in European politics that affected life in the new world. Beginning with a broad description of "America on October 10, 1492," it gives a fresh account of the impact of the discovery on Europe, where in all ministries carefully-made plans were rendered...
...Road to Glory is most interesting in its accounts of battles, of strategy and the arts of war. When Mr. Austin's Napoleon plans a flank or breaks all the rules by storming a bridge, he seems a real character. When he soliloquizes about his dreams of conquest or his love for his wife, he becomes an awkward myth of history. But, as Mr. Austin says of The Road to Glory, "I defy any person to discover all the faults I know positively to exist...