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...Midway picture in mind: it expected the Japanese to be drawn into a carrier task-force battle. Instead, the Japanese, who had learned a bitter lesson at Midway, started tactics of infiltration by sea. Only once, on Aug. 24-25, the Japanese seemed to have fallen into the trap. U.S. forces located a Japanese task force, possibly sank the small carrier Ryuzyo, hit several cruisers and a battleship, possibly hit another carrier, but not without losses...
...World are mentally on all fours. Those who struggle into an erect position are mercilessly beaten over the head by a pixillated fate until they squat. Within the prison of life, says Thurber, are "smaller prisons" erected by bureaucrats. In them, man is caught "like a mouse in a trap in Sing Sing...
...dying man in a Manhattan revival of Sar-dou's Fedora turns out to be very dead indeed when the curtain goes down. Psychiatrist-detective Basil Willing, working on tenuous clues and a wide knowledge of abnormal psychology, finally snares a persistent and excellently hidden criminal in a trap that almost ends the doctor's own career. Credible stage atmosphere and an airtight plot...
...reach Efogi (see map, p, 34), but still no Japs. Nearing the gap. the Aussies made "light contact" with Jap patrols, but where and when the battle of the Owen Stanley Mountains would be joined, nobody knew. The Australians crept forward more cautiously, lest they fall into a Jap trap...
...Donne's fine-grained intensity. In "Furlough" Crockett tries with some success to fit a difficult French verse form to a mood of lyric nostalgia, but the same attempt in "Embarkation" does not come off as well. Both, however, are considerable improvements on his earlier work. Harrison's "The Trap" is a rather conventional cry of despair in the Eliot tradition...