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...suggests the balancing of a hippopotamus by a giraffe or another architectural nightmare like the balancing of the Indoor Athletic Building by the Lowell House Tower. (I would suggest that Memorial Hall by torn down and the Chapel erected in its place until the next war comes along. The plot of ground between Broadway and Kirkland Street might well be consecrated to a succession of memorials...
...requires a much higher degree of skill to produce a happy ending, which seems convincing, than a tragic one. Here the plot and characters are convincing enough, but as in so many last acts, there seems to be a faltering and as labored effect to tie together all the loose ends. The action there goes on in retrospect in the mind of Bruce, and as I read this stream of memories I felt that the author was perhaps groping for something that he had not quite found. Also, at the very end the shifting of emphasis to the part fate...
...obstacles this time are self imposed by the young man, Bruce Herrick, who fears that his blood is tainted with insanity. Rose, the girl he loves, by demonstrations of her deep love and faith, in him succeeds in driving out his inhibitions and restoring his self confidence. The plot is not involved nor is it reduced in its simplicity to an entire dependence on the human will. The element of fate plays its own part as expressed by the stroke of the forked serpent from the cloud...
TRADER HORN?Exciting jungle story full of amazing scenes of animals and natives, and geared with a real plot...
...shortcomings. To a dog like Siedoi, excitement is always welcome and off he goes to the front with Fedka. They are taken prisoners and live for a while in Germany. Then back they steal into Russia as heroes and Siedoi becomes more and more the main agent of the plot. He sees the wounding of the Man Cock, the handsome fiance of the Prince's daughter Sonia; he sees the rascally Peter robbing the dead and wounded. At home, as the War goes worse and worse for Russia, he sees and feels the pinch of starvation begin...