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...they superimpose upon this framework of discipline a gentle mysticism which officers almost nowhere else do. Chen Cheng's Sixth War Area second-in-command sometimes stands on a hill in the moonlight with visitors and recites the liquid verses of the early 8th-Century Poet Li Po. A general commanding one of the crucial fortifications of the Gorges paints delicate drawings of birds and flowers...
...book has the gooseflesh resonance of a well-made poem, full of dim, sentient suggestions of a religious fatality. Its whole treatment is somber, muted, ardent. As a confused, cryptic painting-a portrait of a personal absorption rather than a public communication -it is moving. Yet, within its arbitrary framework, it convincingly clarifies nothing about destiny...
During the past year the School has offered courses based largely upon material secured in cooperation with the Army War College on industrial, mobilization, priorities, and the economic problems of national defense, which will from the framework of the new plan and give men taking the course an understanding of the increasing relationship between the country's military effort and industrial activity...
...leather crash helmet, was pressed against an oblong sponge-rubber rim which framed the eyepiece of an 18-in. telescopic gun sight. Whenever his target centered in the cross hairs of the sight, he touched an electric firing key, watched a 15-lb. high-explosive projectile rip through a framework target tank...
...comedy hauled out of this unremarkable framework is one part radio, one part vaudeville, one part lunacy. The trail of the safari through the jungle is illustrated with an animated map. The voice of a commentator speaks: "Week after week they plod onward with nothing to guide them but the stars by night and the sun by day. . . . And so our safari is forced to rest-hoping to regain their strength with generous helpings of wart-hog stew." When a group of savages are arguing in their native tongue, very liberal English translations appear at the bottom of the screen...