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...high noon on May 10, 1940-the day Hitler's Panzer divisions began their drive toward France-from the cloudless sky over ancient Freiburg a thin drone insisted. The burghers were not alarmed. They glanced skyward, expecting to watch another Luftwaffe observation plane drift toward the French border ten miles to the west. Instead, they saw a formation of planes, sweeping in at great altitude from the north. Seconds later, the burghers and their women and children ran for cover, shrieking. Terror bombing of undefended cities on the western front had begun...
...black & white dramatization of racial prejudice in a Midwestern town, hit an exposed nerve of U.S. society. So did a rash of other race-relations novels (led by Laura Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement). They were no doubt well-intended, but most were conscientious catastrophes, shrill and thin-blooded...
...revitalized language program can easily attract many undergraduates now fretting their way through narrow reading channels. But the benefits would not be for students alone. If language departments show their wares to Freshman beginners in a more favorable light, the thin ranks of their concentrators might grow along with a new student appreciation...
...individual scholar's thin a 300-mile radins of Boston, toward Harvard which he meets almost entirely upon the particular and economic environment of his iding so close to the University of its activities to of a general misconception...
...There was poor Herbert George, who, though of medium height, had the look of a Disney dwarf. His deeply lined skin was puckered into thin folds in the apprehensive expression of a chimpanzee, and his features so far departed from the normal that those who met him found themselves looking back again and again to see if they could be as they were remembered, though the total impression was by no means monstrous, merely animal...