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Vegetarians & Geniuses. In the Boston of the 1840s there could be found every variety of reformer, revolutionist and enthusiast: God-intoxicated Transcendentalists, fire-eating and angular Abolitionists, chest-heaving Fourierists, nutty nudists, and somber lady reformers whose figures Henry James was later aspishly to describe as having "no more outline than a bundle of hay." But in the midst of all this intellectual mooning there was great and solid achievement; this was the New England of Emerson and Hawthorne, of Thoreau, Lowell and Longfellow-the golden age of American letters...
Three months ago, earnest, angular Editor Ben McKelway of the Washington Star called one of his reporters on the carpet. To 29-year-old Tom G. Buchanan Jr., who covered the medical beat, the boss put one question: Are you a Communist? Reporter Buchanan, an ex-Army captain, replied that he was (an admission that most good Communists regard as naive). McKelway carefully assured Buchanan that his work had been satisfactory. Then he fired...
...then comes Tilly Cuff. An angular, screechy older cousin of Mrs. Brocken, this creature, "yellow as a plucked chicken," is a busybody who can "scent a private conversation as a cat scents fish." Her cheeks hideously rouged, her arms like drumsticks and her gown some 20 years behind the fashion, Tilly barges into the well-arranged life of Chipping Lodge to create havoc. Mrs. Brocken has invited her because she has a guilty recollection of having, in girlhood days, maliciously prevented Tilly from accepting the one marriage offer ever to come her way. Now, as recompense, quixotic Mrs. Brocken proposes...
...incredibly poky and protracted; it just won't keep movin' along. Nor has it very much more of musicomedy's factitious lure than of the old Hudson River Valley's drowsy charm; only here & there is a lyric sprightly, or the dancing gay. As Ichabod, angular Gil Lamb is likable and pleasant, but by no means a tide-turner. Best thing about Sleepy Hollow is the singing, which does a lot for the next best thing-the songs...
...center the gas was dense enough to be somewhat viscous. Its drag gradually slowed the rotation of the sun while the outer parts of the disc revolved faster. This slowing effect, thinks ter Haar, points toward an explanation of the uneven distribution of the solar system's angular momentum...