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...Orgon arouse in her. The play's visual imagery is equally extreme. At the moment the lights go up on the institutional white, bricklike walls, geometrically marked floors and scattered cushions that are to pass for a Paris mansion, a basket is overturned, and the stage is suddenly bestrewn with red apples, which reappear throughout the show as tokens of temptation or insignia of passion. At the end, Tartuffe arrives to claim Orgon's fortune in a 1930s gangster-style roadster that literally bursts through the back wall of the set. His face is scarred; his henchmen wear...
...know, perhaps, the fried-fish shops that punctuate every corner in the surrounding maze of streets . . . and the lurid-seeming creatures that glide from nowhere into nothing-Arab, Laskar, Pacific Islander, Chinky, Hindoo, and so on, each carry ing his own perfume. You know, too . . . the cobbly courts, the bestrewn alleys, through which at night gas jets asthmatically splutter; and the mephitic glooms and silences of the dockside...
Only about 300 of the 1900 students live in University dormitories; the rest are bestrewn from here to Harvardevens; they never meet in any one place. This dispersion severely limits the physical act of campaigning, the lack of which pains Prins. (It also limits the acquaintanceship of most of us to students within our own fields.) Beyond this, the nature of questions like tuition rises and examination systems precludes a candidate's taking a stand without the extensive research and investigation that preceded the Council's own recommendations on these matters. Democracy is not just campaigning on issues, and there...
...reputation, and who smoke that brand, this information is the straw to break the camel's back. The apparatus of modern civilization has had the tendency to throw the people into the throes of vice, it is true. Dr. Fosdick went as far as to say that a path bestrewn with chewing gum led as surely to Hell as to a telephone exchange, but to have that stigdra east on the subways seems Nemesis. They appeared the one wholesome, clean place where a man could go to get away from himself. But now engaged girls will pawn their rings...
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