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...Everything possible will be done to alleviate the "foodstuff, clothing and housing" situation. But the nation must be ready for "anguish . . . suffering ... life of stoicism." (The Welfare Ministry launched a drive to popularize a new bread made of "waste starch, acorns, pigweed, clover leaves, potato vines...
...cheerfully show their wounds to anyone willing to look.) In the recreation hall, some of the wounded watch the Army training film Baptism of Fire and hear the day's war news. A man in the occupational-therapy department is absorbed in making a set of four-leaf-clover buttons of clay...
What makes "The Hasty Heart" a moving and universal drama, instead of the narrow war play it might well have been, is that its author has constructed a clover series of character analyses, without reference to the fact of the war. And Patrick has been faithful, too, in his representation of fighting men. Instead of falling into the fallacious techniques of such productions as "The Eve of Saint Mark," where the speech and thoughts of the men were involved only with the war, he has drawn a portrait of men who are embarrassed, ashamed to discuss battle and its ugly...
Jackpot. In Towanda, Pa., Carl Sloat, in one tour of his backyard, ran across a double four-leaf clover, a V-shaped potato, and his wife's wedding ring...
...buns, learned what it felt like to faint from hunger. He rented an abandoned studio, slept on the models' stand, with a moth-eaten bearskin for a blanket. When his salary at a press-clipping agency was upped to 30 shillings a week, he was in clover. In Sussex, in a farmhouse that had once been a priory, in a big sunny room with casement windows, he wrote his first, brilliantly titled, critical book, The Wine of the Puritans...