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...between the defense and the offense markedly in favor of the former. The great stabilized fronts of 1914-18 seemed to emphasize this growing power of the defense. . . . The idea reached its peak in the later writings of Liddell Hart, at one time recognized as the leading British military critic and in his early years an outstanding advocate of the offensive principle of surprise. I do not, of course, mean that any military men have ever given up the principle of the offensive. . . . We have always realized that the offensive alone could bring quick decisions...
...this week by a serenade of his favorite band tunes. From then on it was Brigadier Burtenshaw Day. Highlight: a concert featuring his famed bass-drum solo to the Army tune, Carry On (he has given it 6,000 times, in every part of the U. S.). Said one critic: "It is the first time I have heard a drum played as a musical instrument." Said the Brigadier with pious pride: "Well, I guess I'm just about the best there...
Laudatory Critic...
TIME'S article (May 27) on Partisan Review contained an erroneous implication in regard to my approach as a critic which I should like to correct. You wrote that "at the peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases." Had you examined my articles in the magazine you would have seen that I have expressed pleasure in a great many types of art, from Picasso, Hartung, Demuth, and American abstract painters to certain operas of Strauss and the dancing of Shankar. I should judge that perhaps 80% of my articles have been laudatory (favorable...
GEORGE L. K. MORRIS New York City TIME is glad that Critic Morris is more often pleased than he gives the impression of being...