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...comes, will still find the Koreans. Said a U.S. Red Cross man: "I've seen the Korean starve to death. I've seen him freeze to death. I've seen him burned by napalm, mangled by bombs, crippled by bullets. I've seen doctors chop off his leg with only a cigarette to kill the pain, but I haven't heard a word of complaint yet. Accepting misfortunes without complaint or bitterness, he expects others to do the same. It can make him the most cruel creature in the world...
Whether Thurber's drawing requires psychiatry or not, a great many people, including New Yorker Editor Harold Ross, cannot get enough of it. A series of murals, executed by Thurber years ago in Manhattan for Tim Costello's Third Avenue saloon (known to its clientele as "The Chop House of Broken Dreams"), is one of the extracurricular features of the establishment. The late Paul Nash, British painter and art critic, once declared Thurber "a master of impressionistic line," comparing him to the early Matisse...
...prefect of Bome is in a hurry to get rid of some Christians before the newly elected emperor, Constantine, can arrive and ease their plight. The prefect herds several hundred Christians from the catacombs to violent death before a packed Coliseum. Roman soldiers and gladiators chop off their hands, string them up by their thumbs and by their toes, and burn them alive. Then they unleash a pack of hungry lions, and the stands go wild. So do the lions. So does the movie audience. There hasn't been anything like it in cinema history. If only it were...
...leave Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; he might even lose his U.S. citizenship. There were some other jokers too. The death tax in England and other debts would take more than half the estate, leaving him but $112,000 and an income of around $5,000 a year. Income tax would chop off perhaps half of that. Upkeep would be expensive and the four servants hardly seemed enough. The biggest problem, thought Gape, was England itself: he was worried about rationed food and Socialist government...
...brass band avoided the mortar-crumpled south gate and the shattered railway station where, on Children's Day as on all other days, the abandoned, the homeless, the orphans prowled restlessly, begging, stealing, conniving to stay alive. They screamed "chop-chop" (food) at G.I.s, hovered hungrily around the soldiers who uncomfortably ate their rations...