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...addition, each student is constantly scrutinized by the authorities in command for evidence of insufficient leadership potential. This concept is probably the most basic factor in governing the West Point mode of life, for character training and development of leadership among its students is the prime end of the Academy...
...three shows him to advantage in a different vein. The Moonlight is a darkly limned, Hardyesque story of conflicting generations in modern England; The African Witch is an authentic description of life in an African town. Herself Surprised is written in what is probably Cary's most congenial mode: the humorous picaresque in which a roguish heroine recalls, with tongue-in-cheek moralizing, the dubious deeds of her past...
That saved Huey and made him a national figure. Earl, beaded with the righteous sweat of his endeavors, thought he deserved higher honors. But Huey paid no attention. For one thing, Earl's wild temper and mode of fighting made him unpopular. During the impeachment proceedings he sank his teeth into one legislator's throat, and chewed until he was pulled off. Later, one Frank P. Krieger complained that Earl had all but bitten his finger off. Also, Huey seemed to have had doubts about Earl's political savvy...
...wrote in a mode of grotesque comedy rarely found in recent American fiction. With the irresponsible zest of a primitive jokester, he reveled in the high jinks of such moronic subhumans as Jeeter Lester and Darling Jill, whom he twisted into creatures of ribald fantasy far removed from everyday human character...
...Michelangelo if you like," the elder John said solemnly, "but first make your living." Out of sight of home, John grew a beard, took to parting his russet hair in the middle and wearing golden earrings. "In spite of a superficial appearance of negligence," he later explained, "my mode of dress was not unstudied and had a style of its own." He has since discarded the earrings, but he wears even his black Homburg with a rakish...