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Filed Out. In Ogdensburg, N.Y., Plate Umpire Donahue glared disgustedly at the obscuring clouds of insects swarming around the arc lights, suspended the night game on account of "eel flies...
...magazine Tekhnika Molodezhy (Technology for Youth) tossed off a few more sparks. Russians, reiterated Tekhnika, had invented the electric arc, the electric light, the electric motor and high-tension power transmissions. And how had the capitalist U.S. utilized these Russian gifts to mankind? By inventing the electric chair, which, "lately, has been used more & more to do away with revolutionary workers condemned to death with the assistance of dirty police provocation...
Before the speechifying started, the Bowl audience was entertained by a lively, two-hour amateur musical show called The Good Road, in which 160 Buchmanites skillfully compounded propaganda for "God-control" from such various elements as Swiss yodelers, Joan of Arc, Lincoln, Washington, the Magna Carta, a G.I. on Okinawa, and an average family...
Stories such as this, which Hawthorne might have written, are seldom written (or read) in our time; they are even more seldom brought to the screen. Producer-Director Carl Dreyer (who made the famed Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928) has filmed Day of Wrath with more than sufficient sobriety, restraint, insight and beauty...
...cathedrals. During World War II he based one exultant canvas on the vapor trails of bombers and fighters overhead, and another, gloomy one, on a moonlit junkyard swimming with wrecked planes. When he was dying, at 57, he painted sunflowers, which turn their yellow disks to the slow geometric arc...