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...perfect. For one thing, Oscar Hammerstein II has succumbed to a fit of moralizing for a few minutes in the second act, and although it is only a passing fit, one that is practically flippant compared with the attack that laid "Allegro" low, it is nonetheless a blotch, a mar, a flaw. And the song that does most of the moralizing, called "You've Got To Be Taught"--the full line is "You've got to be taught to hate"--is as unnecessary as it is didactic. It simply repeats in italics an idea that has already been made...
Lord, confound this surly sister, Blight her brow with blotch and blister...
Acres of Death. But the Air Ministry's huge Berlin map already blossoms with scarlet blotches, indicating areas where the bombs have finished their work. Goriest blotch of all centers on the Tiergarten district, where some 60% of the jampacked Government bureaus and offices have been destroyed. Dead, burned-out suburbs almost surround this area...
Pinta, a tropical skin disease, caused by fungi which settle in the epidermis, permanently blotch the skin with patches of greyish violet or red. When the sickness runs its course, dark men are streaked dead white, fair men dull blue, sometimes tinged with green. (Mr. Wilson first saw green and blue men on a Colombia farm after a "night out".) Neither painful nor fatal, pinta is serious because it disfigures, is very infectious. It can be checked with antiseptic drugs, especially chrysarobin, powder obtained from a tropical tree, which is an ancient remedy of Indian herb doctors. But only tattooing...
...ratio) and low rates. Deep in the defense program (serving airplane, TNT, cartridge and ordnance plants), Union spent $20,000,000 on expansion in 1941, will spend another $21,000,000 this year. It has never lost money, in 1937-41 averaged $7,000,000 profits annually. Only blotch on Union: two years ago it was caught buying politicians. Now it has a clean new management headed by ex-Judge J. Wesley McAfee...