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Last week sardonic Berliners wryly remembered these Hitlerian promises, as waves of British bombers roared in from the west, shuttled across the capital. This was no skimpy hit-&-run attack. For nearly five hours one night, raiders swarmed overhead, dodging and twisting through the pink-orange-white pattern of bursting anti-aircraft shells, flying through the heaviest barrage Berlin had yet thrown up. With parachute flares to light their targets, they splashed bombs on the Tempelhof railroad yards, the Moabit and Wilmersdorf power stations, an airplane-engine factory in suburban Spandau, a gas plant in Tegel. In the ruins...
Last week R. A. F. bombers kept filling out the pattern, stepping up their intensity. They roared down the coastline smashing at docks & shipping from Norway to the Spanish border, pounding the big guns at Cap Gris Nez, blasting barges at Calais. As the week advanced, they gave the French ports their worst battering of the war. Diving through a howling southwester, a squadron of Blenheim bombers poured their loads into Boulogne, starting fires at the rate of one a minute. At Brest, new Fairey Albacore planes of the Fleet Air Arm plunged through a heavy anti-aircraft barrage...
...Decline of the West is a philosophy of history. Spengler boots out the Ancient-Medieval-Modern pattern of schoolbooks, the "Progress" pattern of reformers and optimists, the cause-&-effect patterns of rationalists. He sees each culture-Classical, Chinese, Arabian, etc.-as an organic entity which is born, flourishes, wanes, dies, like plants and animals. As organisms, cultures have a uniform morphology, except where accident intrudes (as in the ruin of Aztec culture by a band of adventurers). Lifetime of a culture is about 1,500 years. Western culture of 1940 is at about the same stage of its life cycle...
...publication of the paper marks the coming of age of the League and the end of the debate over policy. The front new presented is more moderate than indicated at early meetings, following very closely the pattern of the William Allen White Committee...
...statue of John Harvard, as in many of his other works, French handles the robes and clothing in a way that makes them provide more than a mere decorative pattern; the apparel has a structural function as well, for it serves to enclose and stabilize the figure and makes the chair upon which the figure is seated an integral part of the monument. The drapery, therefore, fulfills its function excellently, not only by creating a certain decorative and monumental effect, but also by logically unifying the various parts of the statue. It is interesting to note that the difference between...