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Editor Robert Brittain, a longtime Smart addict, does his best to destroy this theory by presenting a selection of Smart's poems, most of which Browning never read. His volume shows that A Song to David was not Smart's only masterpiece; but it also shows that the sufferings Smart experienced because of his fits of madness gave his best work a peculiar profundity...
...worry about your child becoming a TV addict. After all, TV "is a new toy, and its novelty will wear...
Last Date tells the sobering, to-the-point story of Nick, high-school athlete and hot-rod addict, and his pretty girl friend Jeanne, who take Nick's souped-up jalopy for a reckless joy ride between dances, end up in a head-on collision which kills Nick, permanently disfigures Jeanne...
...Arguer. As a boy in California, Mo. (1950 pop. 3,500), Clarence Streit had no trouble imagining that the mud pond back of the Streits' four-room frame house was the Atlantic Ocean. As an adolescent, he was an addict of romantic poetry and loved to quote Sir Walter Scott ("The train from out the castle drew, but Marmion stopped to bid adieu"). He was a formidable family arguer, once suffered a whipping by father Louis Streit, farm-machinery salesman and country fiddler, for arguing so long and loudly in bed that he kept the rest of the Streit...
...never wavered. From its years of experience on the seamy side of life, the army thinks that it knows as much about drunkenness as any other organization. It maintains that evangelism can reach into depths of degradation which psychiatry cannot touch. Says Captain Tom Crocker, onetime alcoholic and drug addict who is now in command of the army's famed Harbor Light corps in Chicago: "Overcoming drunkenness is a matter of prayer from beginning to end. God is the deciding factor. The job is too overwhelming to be done by human means alone." With evangelism goes fellowship. Misery...