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...thinks is inevitable for the U.S. It also gave him "more humility about what individuals can accomplish in a short period of time." On his return, Reich looked up McCarthy campaigners who had gone on to more antiwar marches and discovered to his horror that they had become "burntout cases running on pure energy and not really thinking about what they were doing anymore...
...early morning fire gutted an Economics Department building at 42 Quincy Street yesterday, and left only a burntout shell...
Despite O. Henry-like plot twists. Plowboy is a gritty and gripping play. Frank D. Gilroy sees character with 20-20 vision and he can shape the grey, doughy speech of the inarticulate into revealing patterns. Gerald O'Loughlin makes Albert a hollow but pitiable clown; the burntout, empty eyes of Rebecca Darke's Helen are as lifeless as pits on the moon; William Smithers' grey-faced Larry has the strength to bear the unbearable...
...among the lepers and the loathsome jungle there is no escape from the fate of being Querry. A leading leper has been assigned to him as a "boy"; his name-and only Graham Greene could think of this-is Deo Gratias. Toeless, fingerless, he gets about; he is a "burntout" or arrested case, like Querry himself, but his mutilation has left him unfit to live in the world, and so he re-enacts the Biblical horror that obliged the leper to carry a warning bell and cry of himself, "Unclean...
...doctors agreed. Their report: "The President has made an excellent recovery from the operation for acute intestinal obstruction due to an old 'burntout' ileitis . . . The heart is not enlarged . . . The size of the heart's shadow [is] unchanged in comparison with the films made during the past ten years . . . The electrocardiogram shows the same residual changes of a well-healed heart-muscle scar which have been present since recovery from the attack last year." Ike's weight, 163 when he checked out of Walter Reed last June...