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...Folk hereabouts get to bed early, those that can still walk. Down behind the morgue a few of the young people are roastin' a nigger over an open fire, but I guess every town has its night-owls, and afore long they'll be tucked up asleep like anybody else. Nothin' stirring down at the big old plantation house-you can't even hear the hummin' of that electrified barbed-wire fence, 'cause last night some drunk ran slap into it and fused the whole works. That's where Mr. Faulkner lives...
Capital is always what a nation fighting to industrialize wants most. Usually, a country sensitive about charity would rather have it in the form of loans, specifically long-term "soft" loans repayable in local currency rather than in dollars. The Development Loan Fund has not been asleep, but it has never had sufficient authority to extend and expand its program...
...security was not all that asleep. The Secret Service got word of a letter Pavlick had written, proclaiming his ambitions. A nationwide alarm went out for his arrest. On Royal Poinciana Way in Palm Beach last week, a policeman spotted Pavlick's car, arrested him for driving on the wrong side of the center line. In the car, police officers found the dynamite. "In a way, I'm glad it's turned out the way it has," said Richard Pavlick as he was held on $100,000 bail for the first assassination attempt on Jack Kennedy...
Writer-director Jacques Becker seems in this case to have fallen asleep over both the screenplay and his camera. His story is routine, and so long in unfolding that one waits with impatience for the first shot to be fired. And further, M. Becker's idea of "artistic" direction is to shoot innumerable scenes through the front window of a lazily cruising automobile...
...Asleep or Awake. Japan was no wet diaper, but "a scented bath which gives you electric shocks at unexpected moments." Many of the shocks came from Zen Buddhism, which Koestler feels makes sense in Japan's rigidly conformist social structure. "Taken at face value and considered in itself," he writes, "Zen is at best an existentialist hoax, at worst a web of solemn absurdities. But within the frame work of Japanese society, this cult of the absurd, of ritual leg-pulls and nose-tweaks, made beautiful sense. It was, and to a limited extent still is, a form...