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...that I find it impossible to relate The Confidential Clerk to any of the myths. Eliot claims the Greek is there, however, and perhaps an under standing of the particular legend would delineate some of the aspects of The Confidential Clerk's characters I still find confusing. The theological framework is much clearer to me, and I shall review The Confidential Clerk in its context...
...historical framework: the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia broke loose from Russia after 1917's Bolshevik Revolution, became thriving little democracies (total population: 6,000,000). In June 1940, Soviet troops, cops and commissars invaded and occupied the three nations. Driven out by the Germans in mid-1941, the Russians returned in 1944. Since then, the Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians have lived under the Communist heel...
...Schwinger's main problems with his work has been to keep up with his thought. Although he says he can already visualize the whole framework of his theory, he is only beginning to realize it on paper. Thus his ideas always run far ahead of his ability to write them down. He says his writing is already three years behind his thought...
...Kitchen. Stranger developments followed. United Aircraft, caught between its doubt of helicopters and its respect for Sikorsky's genius, financed an experimental direct-lift machine. Sikorsky was obligingly frugal; all his years of helicopter research cost United less than $300,000. His Vought-Sikorsky 300 was simply a framework of welded pipes with a 75-h.p. aircraft engine and a big flywheel that was linked by automobile fan belting to the transmission of a single, three-bladed rotor. Nevertheless, it incorporated most of the principles of today's Sikorsky machines...
...could France block it indefinitely? Bidault thought not. "In that case," said he, "Germany could, on an equal footing with the other powers, reconstitute her military might without being in any way controlled by the other nations. The EDC, on the contrary, sets up limitations within the European framework. Our choice is clear...