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...started to speak, Thompson and Jones waited anxiously, for sometimes the nearsighted Dromgoole seemed to be straying wildly from his notes. For long stretches at a time, he would blurt out fanciful ad libs ("I thought he would never stop," says Thompson). And then there was that terrible moment when he was asked about hashish ("He had obviously never heard of it!"). At another time, after reading, "Some medical people will tell you that opium makes your pupils small," Dromgoole apparently could find only a blank in his notes. But even in this crisis, the Heretics sat transfixed. "So what...
Tools are rudimentary, say Men Who Know Only a knife, a pair of blurt pliers, a pair of needle nosed pliers, a file, a hammer a drill and a set of assorted bits a pair of shears, a bench rise, a jeweler a screwdriver, and a simple soldering iron are required...
...Truth serum" doesn't necessarily make people blurt out the truth. In the current American Journal of Psychiatry, Professor Frederick C. Redlich of Yale University Medical School tells how he and his associates arrived at that conclusion after an experimental sampling of students and professional people, some normal, some slightly neurotic...
...Manufacturers Association was spending $2,000,000 to feature the sad plight of a winsome, pigtailed little girl blubbering on the shoulder of her pouting, sad-eyed brother. Warned the A.T.D.M.: "There are some things a son or daughter won't tell you ... Do you expect him to blurt out the truth-that he's really ashamed to be with the gang-because he doesn't see the television shows they see?.. . How can a little girl describe the bruise deep inside? . . . Can you deny television to your family any longer...
...Helena's story.† Satirist Waugh has put away his satire this time. The religious theme of Helena runs close to the ruling passion of Waugh's life, his adopted Roman Catholicism-perhaps too close to it. Any man with his heart in his mouth must either blurt the whole thing out or be content to say almost nothing at all. In Helena, Waugh says almost nothing at all about his own feelings, about his characters, or about the religious motives that compelled their lives. Not even St. Helena herself is much more than a dignified old lady...