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...world, meaning no harm." The leper of modern history, as Greene sees him, is the American-he of the "young and unused face" who has made "a profession of friendship, as though it were law or medicine," and who goes about the world infecting whole continents with the botch of good will. On one level the book is a passionate editorial against U.S. innocence abroad. On another it is, perhaps unconsciously, a revealing study of a new phenomenon of history: a British inferiority complex-the mixture of fury and self-pity with which the old cock of the walk surveys...
...year-old The Green Pastures, a cast of talent and dignity headed by William Warfield as The Lawd, and superb singing, direction and color sets, NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame went into the lists against a tough one last week−CBS's go-minute electronic botch of Mike Todd's exercise in mass gaucherie at Madison Square Garden (see PEOPLE). Everything was on the side of Green Pastures−except the audience. The results, according to Trendex: Heaven, 12.5; Sodom and Gomorrah...
...Touchette, head of the Rescue Squad, says his squad has never been able to save a Harvard suicide. "At least its nice to be able to say," said Touchette, a member of the Harvard Band and an avid Harvard booster, "That Harvard men do a professional job, and never botch...
...Botch Dog. In Pawtucket, R.I., Eugene J. Moreau's Dalmatian neglected to bark when a fire broke out late at night in the kitchen closet, got himself deeper in the doghouse by biting the first fireman to show...
...might be more discreet to observe a mum respect for the pragmatic, clearheaded and honest Swedes. It might also be revealing to compare their and our records in the above-mentioned areas of crime. For when you come right down to it, we've made a dreadful botch of sex right here at home...