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...wants "to get involved" with these unknown and unloved neighbors-it may cost time to testify in court, maybe bring on a lawsuit for interference or for some nameless of fense. The Decent Citizen and Taxpayer is apt to feel that taking any kind of action is unwise, unsafe-and unnecessary...
...Both hear their Holy Ghost and are prone to irrationality and hysteria. Law and order have succumbed in the face of Negro protest; white Americans have beaten and killed, if they have not expelled Negroes. At one time, Negro protest was characterized by prayers and spirituals. Today, one is apt to see Negro demonstrators with clenched fists and to hear curse words. Thus, Negroes conceive and selfishly use "forms of power," such as the stall-in, based on their conception of what is just. A violent impasse has been reached...
Anybody admitted to a mental hospital today has twice as good a chance of getting out as he would have had before the drugs. Therefore, said Dr. Kline: "Public-mental-hospital patients now come with an expectation of improvement, and they come earlier-when treatment is more apt to be successful...
Wigs & Skins. Honzik's parable of the praying mantises, in fact, is even more apt in many parts of the Communist world. Communist China is busily shipping Peking ducks to Havana, and in return is importing giant Cuban-bred bullfrogs for the few Chinese gourmets who can still afford them. Red China's trade may become even more exotic. A French medical journal reported last week that Red China will export, in addition to hair for wigs and skins for sausages, " 'parts of human anatomy,' vulgarly known as 'stiffs.' " The journal did not comment...
Shown on screen, they are apt to seem absurd. Doctor No, the first of Fleming's novels to be filmed, was shot as a straight thriller, but most spectators took it as a travesty and had a belly laugh. The reaction was not lost on Director Terence Young. From Russia, his second treatment of a Fleming fiction, is an intentional heehaw at whodunits, an uproarious parody that may become a classic of caricature...