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...Spanish civil war and has set out to tell his country's tragic story from the beginning of the republic (1931) to the present. Cypresses covers the first five years of political unrest, ends twelve days after the beginning of civil war. Gironella tries to mirror every segment of Spanish society, from wild-eyed anarchists to stuffy professors, "from the bishop to the bootblack." The novel's hero, if it has one, is Ignacio, ison of a poor but intelligent civil servant. His mother is a devout Catholic, his brother a saintly boy headed for the priesthood. Ignacio...
Friedrich's works have been concerned with the problems of Government and many of his books deal with Germany. Another segment of his writtings taked up government control of commercial radio. Harris' writtings deal with many aspects of his field, Economics...
...Polling its members, the National Association of Purchasing Agents found that compared to January, five times as many agents were buying beyond the 60-day range. Cotton mills, an important segment of the soft-goods industries, reported an unfilled-order backlog of about ten weeks, 40% ahead of last year...
...Physics Department members feel Furry should have counsel "of the highest competence," and that their "responsibility in this case is increased because Professor Furry is to be prosecuted in consequence of taking an attitude urged upon him by an important segment of University opinion...
Were this the sum total of Byron's character, it would present no puzzle: any zoo attendant could tumble to it. In fact the monster was a mere segment of it. Women rarely saw the better side of Byron, but to his men friends, the devilish Byron seemed an absurd joke, a mere poetic fantasy. They sat at his feet, bowed to his charm, reveled in the humor and radiance he shed. Their descriptions of him are mostly levelheaded and carry a ring of conviction. Wrote Sir Walter Scott: "I found Lord Byron in the highest degree courteous...