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...thing about these neolithic people is that they lived in a walled town at a time-more than 7,000 years ago-when man was only just beginning to build any kind of settlement. The reason for the wall is probably the character of Jericho's site. A copious spring of fresh water (Elisha's fountain in the Bible) gushes out of the hillside and makes possible the irrigation of a fertile, subtropical plain beside the Dead Sea. The people of the first Jericho must have developed irrigation and built their prosperity upon it. This settlement may have...
Occasionally, The Purification's copious imagery and symbolism become almost unmanageable, and its full-blown phrases tend to give the actors every appearance of being carried away by the sheer beauty of their own performances. Yet the Workshop's players skip over the more leaden passages with a minimum of difficulty. Hal scott, as the Son, is the most outstanding member of the cast, although too often he chokes dramatically at the end of climactic lines. Don Richards, as The Rancher, and Mary Anne Goldsmith, as the Indian girl Luisa, provide competent support...
...Dancer whickers. "When he's talkin' like that, he wants his food," says Murray. Two quarts of oats go into the cerise and white feed bucket. The Dancer is a "good doer," i.e., a copious eater?about ten quarts of grain and extras a day. As the horse eats, Murray begins to whistle. "This is how I make him make water," he explains...
...prospect of dramatic hairline votes, with the party leaders dragging the halt and bedridden to the floor. In fact, the arithmetic creates an illusion that harks back to the days before the direct primary, the days when U.S. political parties had cohesion, enforced by such instruments of discipline as copious federal patronage for local political organizations, which, in turn, picked party nominees for Congress...
...Miller's excellent paraphrasing and meticulous explanation evident elsewhere in the book could replace these passages. Williams was not an especially lucid writer, and if the series is to achieve its goal of appealing to "every literate American of whatever age and description," the way does not lie in copious quotations from the subject but impartial and scholarly interpretation by the author...