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Plug Nichirens. In Tokyo, during a showing of Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion, the management of a movie theater had to beg Nichiren Buddhists in the audience to stop throwing coins-an act of worship-at the fragile Cinema-Scope screen...
...collect her $27, she warns him: "And if you lose that money, boy, don't you come back at all." He doesn't lose it; bigger boys of his own gang take it away from him. The rest of The Long Night tells how Steely tries to beg, borrow or steal $27. No one will let him work for it. The Harlem fancy man for whom he has done odd jobs offers a single dollar. In desperation Steely snatches a woman's purse only to wind up with $2. When he steals a bicycle, planning to sell...
...years ago," recalls Queensland Symphony Conductor Rudolf Pekarek, "you had to beg people to come to concerts. Now they're always packed." Reason is that the Broadcasting Commission has trumpeted the cultural values of good music as a measure of a town's civic taste. In towns whose chief diversion formerly was hunting kangaroos and rabbits, overflow crowds climb nearby trees to listen through the open windows. Occasionally, aborigines show up and solemnly swig plonk (Australian slang for wine...
...guards and spies. Life with father was a perpetual war of nerves for wife Nevarte, son Nubar and daughter Rita. At 8 a.m.. Papa Gulbenkian arranged a series of staggered telephone calls so he could keep tabs on their whereabouts throughout the day. The entire family had to beg him for money with Oriental humility. He once snorted during a murder play, "Ridiculous! In my house the purchase of the poison would be noticed at once in the household accounts...
...Stearns Eliot, 69, read his own verse to some 11,000 in Austin and Dallas, had some clipped words for the Waste Landish poets of the ''Beat Generation": "I have always felt about any form of existentialism the way James Thurber felt about the Civil War-I beg your pardon, the War Between the States-I expect to see it blow over. I don't see why a whole generation should be so gloomy. There are a lot of things to be cheerful about...