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...climax of that pilgrimage, a journey portrayed with a Chaucerian flair for the details which make characters seem real. He shows the Austrians of every class; the nouveau-riche, the poor, the priest, and the salesman--all like Teta seeking blind assurance of happiness beyond life and ignoring the hell on earth. The Pope, himself wracked by physical pain, like them turns his eyes away from the ground. Only the flotsam on the "wave of the future," Werfel and Teta's intellectual employers, care enough even to look at reality...
...with dynamism, the inertia of the "lower orders," in Teta's phrase, cannot be affected. All else is flux for them except a deep thirst for salvation. For the faithful that deep thirst is sufficient proof of the existence of water--they know they can escape from hell on earth into an embezzled heaven. Franz Werfel, though, cares about mundane things. He can only flee and explain...
...rancher heard the transport's engines, flying low, then heard a distant crash. When searchers reached the top of Mother Grundy Peak, they found the smashed ship, eleven bodies, nobody alive to tell just what had happened. Airmen knew that for the four from the PBY, the last hell and thrill of flight in storm must have been about the same...
Then, at dawn on Jan. 3, backed by the R. A. F. and a barrage of heavy artillery, the Australians struck. Big, husky, uncontrollable men. they, like their Anzac fathers before them, had for months made their officers' lives hell. They had taken the war as a vast, rowdy picnic. On the way to their battle stations they had made themselves more feared than the enemy wherever they stopped, made a shambles of Army discipline. When they were refused permission to land in Ceylon they swam ashore in their shorts, frolicked about half-naked in the streets...
Though granting that sin still lurked in such "adjuncts of the devil's back yard" and "citadels of hell" as Michigan's drink spots, godly, 81-year-old retiring Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, addressing an exaugural message to the State Legislature, drew the Legislature's attention (and Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner's) to the fact that "God Almighty has a place and power in Michigan's State administration as never before...