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...idea that human dignity must be a mixture of bad as well as good is an old one; what gives it added impetus in the film is Kirk Douglas' moving portrayal of a man whose intense idealism precludes both pity and understanding. That the hard-bitten New York detective sees his problem and realizes his inability to deal with it is the tragedy of the play. His virtual suicide at the end of the movie is not just an easy way out for the play-wright; it is the only possible resolution of the conflict...
Occupational Hazard. In Baltimore, when zoo officials brought in a new gorilla to meet Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, he stopped them short: "Don't let him near me-I mean it. Since I've been mayor of Baltimore, I've been bitten by a snake, clawed by a lion cub and kicked by a camel. . . Let's buy him and get him out of here...
...went back to the beginning. The first mention of a Loch Ness monster was in the 7th Century account of St. Columba's visit to the province of the Picts. He came to the river Nesa (the Ness) and found that an aquatic monster had just bitten and killed a Pict. So the saint ordered another Pict to dive into the water. The monster rose to take him as a salmon takes a fly, but the saint made the sign of the Cross "and the monster was terrified and fled away more quickly than if it had been dragged...
...troubled Protestant army chaplain, hard-bitten Major Kartuschke's bluster, meant only one thing-another German had chloroformed his conscience. In twelve hours, one of Major Kartuschke's prisoners-21-year-old Lance Corporal Fedor Baranowski-would be shot by a firing squad. Curiosity and compassion impelled the chaplain to find out why. Through a long, anguished night, he wrestled with a stack of court-martial papers...
Yuan Kai-li was an ordinary laborer at Shanghai's Second Steel Mill until he was bitten by the Stakhanovite bug and started doing twice as much work as before. He was promptly elected Shanghai Model Worker. He was sent to a national congress of model workers, met Communist Boss Mao & Co., found himself a member of eight different committees...