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...Cruel and Barbarous Treatment, in a mere 20 pages, squeezes all but the last few drops of ugliness out of those elements of boredom, vanity, theatricality, sadism and cowardice which, if undiluted by so simple a thing as love, often destroy marriage...
...Japanese islands are," he says, "and for all time must remain geographically in strategic domination of the vital base line of the Eurasian Triangle." "It is imperative," he insists, "that this Eurasian Triangle be seen for what it really is-a bomb of sufficient power to destroy not merely itself but all other parts of the world. ... As a tremendous bomb the Eurasian Triangle may be divided into a European fuse or detonator, and an Asiatic powder charge." The history of Europe in the last hundred years is a history of the attempt to explode this bomb by bringing together...
Hitler has to destroy the Russian Army in 1942 or lose the war. And the U.S. has to keep Russia fighting or face a war that will be immeasurably longer and tougher...
...cannot reveal even a general route for fear the enemy might get on the trail. We poured gasoline on a scout car and a couple of sedans and shot tommy-gun bullets into them only a few short hours ago. We still have a couple of cars to destroy but are waiting to see if someone trying to get out cannot use them. I have just come from the tank corps with a thousand rounds of machine-gun ammunition and we hope this is enough to last out our small unit on what promises to be a long journey...
...appears padded. The lyrics, excepting an occasional piece like "Come In" or "A Young Wretch," seem minor, and occasionally trite. Emphasizing the short line and two-syllable rhyme, poems like "A Considerable Speck" are characterized by occasional flashes of epigrammatic brilliance which, though causing a quick chortle, tend to destroy poetic unity and completeness. In extended form these epigrams frequently become rapid-fire social commentary, and here Frost seems beyond his depth. Knowing the farms and people of New England, he is lost when he strays into the maze of an international industrial society; and the bewildered fear that creeps...