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...Blanket Indictments. The play, like that vision, finally falls apart. The point of collapse comes when Mrs. Hasseltine withdraws her charges against Millington and turning on the assembled officers, says, "You are scum." Playwright England hasn't prepared the audience for anything like that, either as a Brechtian blast at the military or in terms of the actual behavior of the officers involved. It refutes common sense to make blanket indictments of any group of men, whether they be army officers, policemen or stockbrokers. The person most qualified to know this is Mrs. Hasseltine herself, who has traded...
...small factory. Inside, the soldiers found several boards and laid them on the earthen floor as my bed. Drenched by the rain, I lay down and tried to sleep. The boards rattled beneath me as I quivered from the cold. One of the soldiers fetched a blanket from his pack and wrapped it around me. As I drifted into sleep, the ground again shook beneath me, and then again. It was the rumble of bombs from...
Essentially, the water bed is a vinyl bag filled with water and fitted out with a temperature-control device. Set in a sturdy plastic frame, and covered with ordinary sheets and perhaps a light blanket, it may well be an aid for insomniac mankind in its long battle with Morpheus...
...dismal-fronted pile of bastard Egyptian." The present dungeon was built in 1941, and little has changed but the occupants. The 6-ft.-wide cells were designed for one man; now they often hold three, with one compelled to sleep on the concrete floor. If a man gets a blanket, it is usually infested with lice and roaches. Homosexual assaults are routine; some guards reportedly traffic in drugs. As a final blow, most of the Tombs prisoners have not even been convicted of a crime -they are merely rotting away while awaiting trial...
Twin Circle itself has grown remarkably, nearly doubling its circulation in the past 18 months to more than 100,000. Much of that increase probably resulted from a blanket, hard-sell promotion (including phone calls to every parish in the country). Some of it is also a response to the unyielding ideology of Jesuit Editor Daniel Lyons, who would have the U.S. blockade Haiphong and send Nationalist Chinese troops to Viet Nam. While an ad hoc committee of bishops was working to resolve the California table-grape strike, Lyons castigated both the bishops and the strikers. On matters of doctrine...