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...apathetic and disinterested audiences in New York, "Temper the Wind" is a searching treatment of the lax and ineffective American occupation of Germany. It is a play with moral implications that should be of vital interest to the post-war world, yet it is received with nothing more than boredom and half-hearted approval. Written during the war years by two men speculating on the character of our German occupation in the event of an Allied victory, "Temper the Wind" is a somber prediction that has unfortunately come true. Accused of writing their play from today's headlines, authors Leonard...
...continuation," he complained. Dr. Shapley, an astronomer who worries about almost everything under the stars, plumped for a "positive friendship for civilization, expeditiously organized and steadily maintained. . . . Time is short," he warned. The five great threats as he saw them in climactic order: pandemic plague, world warfare with superweapons; boredom; sexually debilitating dope; and "the genius-maniac." The simple way to dispose of the last: ". . . Kill off, while young, all primates that show any evidence of promise. . . ." The words were hardly out of his mouth before alarmed citizens were asking when the killing was supposed to start. Dr. Shapley gritted...
...their eyelids had been smeared with sausage meat." The winding alleys-Street of the Union, Street of the Clock-were lit at night, white and black, by the polished moon of Castile and by gas jets, weak flames shaped like slices of melon. In summer he saw the savage boredom of village life in Brunete on the baked plain, where young men crucified bats whose wings tore as easily as old rags. He saw a starved boy in the ragged tinsel of a matador waiting, with the face of a mystic, for a bull's charge in a drunkenly...
...views of the first post-war sports celebration in Red Square, Moscow. As an exhibition of color and acrobatic skill, of beauty in sheer numbers, or of the incredible diversity of peoples in the Soviet Republic, it is impressive. But after only a few minutes awe gives way to boredom and horror of a sort...
...Samples: 1) watch out for dogs-they are liable to get a paw caught in your crutch; 2) the most efficient and attractive crutch position is dead vertical; 3) a legless person can always make a sucker of a carnival weight guesser; 4) a good way to relieve the boredom of answering nosybodies who want to know how it happened is to tell whoppers (a favorite Baker whopper: her leg got frozen stiff in skiing and was chipped off with an ice pick...