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Most hilarious chapter is about Hollywood, where at one revolutionary banquet, the high-priced cinemarxists raised their champagne glasses in a toast before bursting into "Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!" Most important chapter is the one on red-baiting. Lyons points out that the epithet "red-baiter," uttered in shrill tones of ethical exaltation, has a paralyzing effect on almost all liberal critics of Communism, is one of the most effective silencing tricks in the versatile Communist repertory. The Lyons recipe for overcoming it: "Walk up boldly to the terrible hobgoblin and . . . say, 'Boo!'' He warns liberals...
Dartmouth's alumni, who love every wrinkle of Hoppy's square, rugged face, toasted him at a banquet (his own class -'01-had its 40th reunion). Dartmouth men were proud of what he had done for Dartmouth: he had upped endowment from $4,000,000 to $18,000,000, nearly doubled the faculty and student body. They were proud of his services to the nation: he was in charge of U.S. industrial relations under Secretary of War Newton D. Baker in World War I; in World War II he runs metal and mineral priorities for OPM. They...
...high key as it takes its color tone from the palettes of the Spanish masters: the somber browns of Murillo for the opening sequence; the shade and shine of Sorolla for the market scenes; El Greco's eerie greens in the chapel; Velasquez' black & white for the banquet; and the rich red & gold of Goya for the arena...
...infirmary scene the color-struck director dyed the white sheets green, hued the actors' faces with green spotlights. To keep the green flowers and vegetables from clashing with his black- & -white banquet scene, he dyed them black. To give clothes and props the oily texture of a painting, he tinted them with spray guns...
...Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week 300 spicemen topped off a three-day conclave with a savory, super-spiced banquet costing $10.12 a plate. But the very spices they were eating might not be replaceable until war's end. The spice industry is the No. 1 example of a business where shortages will soon be complete, with no recourse to ersatz. Some examples: > Before the war, sage was plucked by Greek and Yugoslav goatherders. With these sources out, U.S. trade prices have risen from 7? to $1.35 a pound. When spice-grinders tried to use wild California sage...