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A Modern Major General
Kronenberger, Louis | April 1, 1936 issue

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In this article, the author focuses on the book "The General," by C.S. Forester. The character Herbert Curzon, in Forester's novel, is any and far from pretending to a knowledge of fugues and paradoxes. There was no nonsense about Curzon, he was a soldier who gave and took orders with the same undivided mind, and who passed up all cosmic conjecture in seeing to it that the line held firm. The portrait of Curzon is not the less terrifying because it is pat. Forester has drawn Curzon monotonously to type, has drawn him almost to the point of caricature, yet it is absurd to cavil, since for all that he has drawn him scathingly enough to make one's blood boil.

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GENERAL, The (Book); FORESTER, C. S.; CURZON, Herbert; CARICATURES & cartoons; SOLDIERS; GENERALS
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