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But on the night before another jury brought in its verdict last week, Mr. Fish discovered that he had urgent business in New York. He dictated a hasty statement for the press. Said Mr. Fish: "I am very sorry to learn that George Hill, a disabled, decorated veteran of the...
In an afterword on Wolfe and his working methods, Editor Aswell mentions, among other unpublished manuscripts, the novel K 19, in which Wolfe tried to dispose of his obsession for trains and which, greatly reduced, became the tremendous first section of Of Time and the River. He adds a ghostlike...
This obsession, more preacher's than poet's, drives Preacher-Poet Agee into some of the most exciting U.S. prose since Melville; into mind-wrenching gusts of irony, fury and scorn; into tedious stretches of self-indulgent introspection and childish philosophy. These are caused by Agee's...
Organized labor is no sacred cow to Thurman Arnold, mustachioed, bag-eyed, bellicose Assistant Attorney General whose special province (and obsession) is trust busting. Like all good New Dealers Mr. Arnold believes labor's rights are sacred. But he has a reservation: their sanctity vanishes the moment labor tramples...
It is necessary to have the courage to say that Italy cannot remain forever shut up in one sea, even if that sea be the Adriatic. . . . There are other seas that may interest us. . . . Treaties are transactions which represent agreements, points of equilibrium. No treaty is eternal.-so said Mussolini...