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...flaming Cologne the night 1,000 R.A.F. bombers plastered that German city with destruction. The same warrior face, on a British Ministry of Information poster, now is going to Russia above this message: "We lost 44 planes on that raid, but we are prepared to give our lives to destroy Fascism, as you are giving yours. The Fascists will not be able to stand the hell we shall give them together...
...Tommy gunners took to trees along roadsides to pick off Red infantry. In groups of four, one would operate the gun, the others spot approaching enemies. The Russians called them kukushkas (cuckoos) and sent their best soldiers out to destroy them, with orders not to fire at more than 165 yards...
...polio virus, he wrote, does not always destroy all the nerve cells leading to the paralyzed muscles-but often sends the muscles into spasm, painful contraction or twitching. If spasm is relieved, the nerve cells which remain alive can substitute for those which have been destroyed. The danger of paralysis lies mainly in allowing spasm to continue...
Democracies, according to Kohn, are much freer from corruption than dictatorships, for dictatorships will not allow people to say what they want and publicize corrupt officials. "The best way to destroy corruption is to publicize it," said Kohn...
...plot. The son, whose character is strikingly like that of Citizen Kane, lacks the one saving grace of the Ambersons--their charm. His narrow-mindedness and conceit contrast sharply with the polish and warmth of his mother. Yet his stronger traits triumph over her more delicate virtues, destroy her life, and dissipate the family fortune. Once again the main role is that of an unpleasant, cruel man like Kane, but for variation the audience is assured that bitter experience has made a better man out of the last of the Ambersons...