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...young naval lieutenant almost drowned in releasing the pilot from the tangled wires. The pilot was Trubee Davison. His back was broken, he was crippled for life, he would never fly over the French battlefields. The year before, a mere sophomore at Yale, Trubee Davison had seen the stark necessity for trained U. S. aviators, had, by incomparable enthusiasm, created the Yale Aviation Unit, of which Admiral Sims later said, "The great aircraft force which was ultimately assembled in Europe had its beginning in a small group of undergraduates at Yale" (TIME, June 14, BOOKS). Trubee's father...
...sword of Chang hangs over all Manchuria. The luxury of his robber-baron court is set off in opulent relief by the stark barbaric cruelty of his oppressive military régime. While the pen of Wu traces not seldom such poems as are expected from a Chinese gentleman, Chang scorns a lighter toy than his automatic pistol. He has been known to remark to a passing stranger: "Your face seems not unfamiliar. But I thought I ordered you beheaded last year...
...time when the various colleges are sending more men and women into the waste lands of modern existence one is tempted to remember those lines in a passage of Stark Young's criticism where he suggests that certain modern actresses would be much greater actresses had they at some time in their lives really suffered. For few of these young graduates who are now leaving their feathered nests of American higher education have really suffered. At best some of them have worked--but work after all is not suffering...
...drama. The completely supernatural story is the tale of a woman dead, declared dead by her sister, whose house, in the wildest part of the coast of Brittany, the author visited long after dark one gale-infested night. The other story, "Bewitcher," harks back to "Ethan Frome," and the stark New England of six foot snows and ice-crusted consciences. In the first of these she seems the author playing with her medium. In the second there is a breath of that frosty air which made "Ethan Frome" so welcome to habitues of Mrs. Whartons usual conservatory atmosphere...
...trouble," he says simply, "in leaving out the stock poetical touches, but succeeded at last." Five versions of Leaves of Grass have been cast to wind, water and fire, after bitter hours of solitude in the lee of basaltic boulders on a sand-strewn promontory. The sixth version is stark flesh and marrow with life's tide flooding, pounding through...