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Added the Department: "In selecting those to be promoted, obviously great weight will be given to character and leadership. The extensive maneuvers scheduled for this summer and fall will provide an unusual opportunity for officers to demonstrate qualities of leadership under field conditions. Physical and mental vigor will be essential qualities in determining selections for command duty. General efficiency and age will, of course, be considered." In plain English: no longer could old fuddy-duddy Regulars, for the emergency's duration at least, count on being promoted by the mere passage of time...
...ensemble approach at times the effect of a full string orchestra, particularly in the rich and lyrical Introduction, which employs melodies from Brazilian jazz to excellent effect. The Prelude and Fugue show a scholarly understanding of Bach worthy of the most erudite academician, yet there is plenty of original vigor; one doesn't feel that this is just another exercise in composition being backed over. Villa-Lobos handles the counter-point perfectly smoothly, and inside this frame-work gives free rein to his own ideas. In the Fugue possibly he confines himself more rigidly to his master--every element, down...
...Author Vardis Fisher, long somberly enraptured (in Children of God, etc.) with the whole sprawling, patternless vigor of U.S. westward expansion, Virginia City and its characters are tasty raw meat. But City of Illusion is written as a novel, and in it Author Fisher has recaptured the vitality of U.S. legend as well as U.S. history...
...shows in his tendency to machine-gun a page with overlabored dialect, and to indulge a special fondness for plants, farming terms and place names. It is an unlucky affectation for a young writer. But even if he never gets rid of it, Jesse Stuart has body and vigor enough to carry...
Educators quickly took alarm. Said 14 Harvard facultymen: "In the books will appear many statements to which any reader with special interests will inevitably take exception. We hold that this ought to be the case. . . . Our schools need challenge and . . . the vigor of intellectual controversy." Replied the N. A. M.: "The aim was . . . merely to determine the facts. . . . The public will have a factual basis upon which to judge what, if anything, should be done...