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...play is like the short story. Each form, because it is brief, can convey tremendous intensity, yet this same brevity only allows an author to hint at a theme. Seldom has he time to develop an idea into more than a mere skeleton. For this reason, both forms often lead to triteness or to a vagueness that goes nowhere...
Russia, he said, wants a truce in the cold war. "It is not true that mankind has to face only the choice between fresh world slaughter or the cold war . . . The Soviet government stands for further reduction of international tension." Malenkov gave no hint of what the Soviet government might do to help reduce world tension, insisting that the deeds must come from the "aggressive circles in the West that are still hopelessly dreaming of destroying our socialist society." As a first step, he added, Western Europe should abandon EDC, "by which, under the guise of a little Europe, there...
When, as in The Black Rose, one Yellow Horde meets another, the one with some perceptible religion will triumph after horrible and chastening suffering. In the forthcoming Genghis Khan, however, the script writers are cast adrift without a hint as to American preference, none of the combatants being particularly religious and all being equally crafty and barbaric. Until the Horde tangles with Europeans near the end, there should be some terrific battles, with the victory to the strong rather than the popular...
Some occasional inadequacies in the narrative veil the good writing that appears sporadically in the descriptive passages. Though these faults keep Senior Spring from being an important novel, some of the book's moderate virtues hint at better things to come...
...rose on a miserable little newcomer to the animal kingdom. Baby Bandoola's trunk was a stunted snout that he could barely move, his forehead and back were matted with long wavy hair, and his skin was a loud purple. Within 48 hours he got a grim hint of the deadliest fact of a young elephant's life, a tiger in attack. Clawed and trumpeting, his auntie bolted, but his torn and bleeding mother sheltered him like a slab of concrete till the "oozies" came...