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...Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai E. Stevenson won a couple of diverse honors last week, accepted both with cool aplomb. Named "National Father of the Year" by the National Father's Day Committee, he spoke out in defense of that "butt of the comic strips" and "boob of the radio and TV serials," the American father. Said Adlai, father of three and grandfather of three: "Life with father seems to have degenerated into a continuous sequence of disrespect, or tolerance at best . . . Even though we don't want him to be the autocrat of the breakfast table...
Mute Jake suffers little from cruelty, actually: boys chase him, loafers of no great intelligence use him as the butt for broad humorous gibes. But when his older brother runs out on the family and his widowed mother dies, the small community becomes their brother's keeper. They fail him, most of them, and after their effort to shuck him off onto the insane asylum collapses, the deeper tragedy follows. Author Williams is talking about the failure of human responsibility not through vindictiveness but through indifference. She does it with sureness, for she knows her villagers and she knows...
They ribaidly made of him ridicule's butt...
Alan Berger's story, "Doggy," is a serious and powerful work. Insanity lies below the surface of the narrator's boyhood reminiscences about Doggy, the fat Jewish boy, the butt of all the gang's hostility in their parody of World War II movies. The emphasis in the story shifts from Doggy's role in the gang to Doggy's relationship with his mother, and finally to the mother herself. I hesitate to disclose any part of the carefully worked out plot with its sudden, horrible revelations, or to point out the occasional overly poetic verbosity which threatens the casual...
Four years ago Admiral Arleigh Burke, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, decided that South America's navies-at times the butt of jokes-could patrol their own waters with the proper equipment and know-how. Burke saw real defense potential in the total of 390 vessels (see map) and 55,000 men. Only landlocked Bolivia has no navy; backward Paraguay, with a 1,100-mile river link its only outlet to the sea, boasts two gunboats-and two rear admirals...