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...your confidence in us. Give us your faith and your blessing, and under Providence all will be well. We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish...
...motorboats, whaleboats and dhows, manned for the most part by farmers and landlubbing natives from the interior who had never seen the sea before the war. But last week Kenya's Navy made up in gallantry for what it lacked in gear and seamanship. It embarked some Nigerian shock troops from a Kenya port, landed them efficiently in a mangrove swamp near the Italian Somaliland border. Marching all night through a deserted countryside, the Nigerians raided Ras Chiamboni, formerly an important base for Italian operations in Kenya but now nearly undefended. They burned the whole town except...
Aftermath is the hour of silence after shock, still resonant with annihilation. In it Verdun's great orchestra is reduced, and human life withdrawn to its deepest, simplest roots. Book 17, Vorge Against Quinette (first half of Aftermath) is a cruel and sinuous piece of chamber music by a few instruments. Its theme is death. Book 18, The Sweets of Life, is even quieter, like a gentle, ruminative improvisation. Its theme is love and all that expands from it. Yet on Romains' great talents, these deep and quiet books are scarcely less demanding than Verdun...
...Really violent adolescence set in at 25. By 30 the physical survivors flickered into a relatively tranquil senescence. But they had been deeply seared by a blinding flash of revelation that life is at bottom brutal, and most of them clung to their cushioning cynicism years after the psychic shock had passed. They had to. Cynicism was the lost generation's only morale...
...seems like a long time since a college president has said anything that the majority of undergraduates could accept without a struggle. So it was something of a shock that last Thursday the heads of two leading American universities came out with eminently sensible statements that are hard to pick a quarrel with. Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins, in a radio address, warned that the nation "is about to commit suicide" by joining the European conflict, and that President Roosevelt is sliding dangerously close to active intervention. Harvard's Conant, who is far from agreeing with his colleague...