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...chief charms of the story; in consequence, he approaches the truth about the trio more nearly than anyone has to date, and at least as nearly as anyone ever will. He does not fail to show Bonfils in his worst lights: he reveals him as a crack-pot miser, who hides behind the ticket booth at his circus so that he will not have to admit his own daughter free; he shows the reader a stupid man, a crooked man, a bully, and a sorry figure. But the other side of the picture is between the covers: Bon blazes...
...hoped, that the axiom in this instance may justly apply. These references have to do with your editorial of February thirteenth, in which, under the nom de plume Nemo, and with freedom of expression that is startlingly unique, you crack open the nut of smug, self-conceit, and expose the "Kernel" (Charles A. Lindbergh) in most commendable fashion...
...sober tempo of Director John Ford's narrative gives them the character of fact. Nothing is dramatized except the presence of Death. The only suspense is that of counting very slowly toward a dozen. No more is necessary to make the picture as sharp and alarming as the crack of a rifle. Best shot: a last hooded Arab following his dead companions into the oasis...
...feel the pressure of events more strongly than the weight of precedent. That six Harvard instructors recognized it as well, and spoke their minds in a public letter to the president, is a hopeful sign, and a particularly welcome antidote to the bast of the Seven Sages from their crack in the rock of Sound Money. CASTOR...
This profound nervousness on the part of the Russians is not due merely to fear of Japan, for in the event of a struggle it seems evident that the Russians are going to prove hard nuts for the Japs to crack; nor is it attributable to fear that their programme of internal development will be irreparably damaged by a war, although both of these factors certainly play an important part. The cause of the jumpy nerves of the Soviets goes far deeper and is less tangible than this; what this cause is was revealed in a recent speech by Stalin...