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...Truth Is ... The stranger, a Captain Roy Archer, is attached to an infantry regiment stationed near by. From the first moment, Captain Archer fascinates and dominates Langrish, and when the captain invites him to drive into town to see a boxing match that night, Langrish happily accepts. Everything about Archer is mysterious: his talk about an imminent "crisis" and the need for dedicated soldiers, his warning that the "other lot," the enemy, is getting ready to attack, the tattooed sword and snake...
Soon the captain has Langrish training with him secretly, at night, to toughen him, finally gets Langrish's promise to enlist in his battalion. But when Langrish, confused by all the mystery, desperately insists on knowing what it's all about, Archer replies: "All right, then-the truth is that nobody knows." The enemy? "I only wish I knew...
Help Me! His first harvest was a car, a prisoner and $100. He hitched a ride with a 56-year-old Texas mechanic named Lee Archer, robbed him and locked him in the automobile's trunk. But after Cook began driving, the mechanic pried open the trunk and escaped. Then, near Oklahoma City, the car broke down...
Hearing Mrs. Theresa Archer of Westville, N. Y., screaming "My baby, my baby!" in the darkened plane, he turned around and snatched up Irene seconds before the fire broke out and the plane exploded...
...failure in feeling was noticed by the earliest critics of Shaw. William Archer said of his characters that instead of blood "a kind of sour whey" flowed in their veins. The fact is that anger and indignation-the most intellectual of our emotions-were alone portrayed successfully; the laughing anger of Shaw must be compared to Voltaire's. The brief poetical passages in John Bull's Other Island are the poorest sentimentality; even the saintly figure of Father Keegan in that play occasionally arouses shyness. In St. Joan the pathos is commonplace and the mysticism embarrassing. Shaw hardly...