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...mixed a frothy mortar of sex and exodontia. Readers are likely to find Dr. Eskelund's love affairs (he was thrice-married, had many mistresses) less picaresque, however, than his adventures in oral hygiene, although there were times when it became hard for the dentist himself to distinguish between them...
Cheyenne (Warner) is as hard to distinguish from most other westerns as one Fred Harvey lunchroom is from the next. Dennis Morgan chases assorted desperadoes up & down hill through semi-arid shrubbery and past many picturesque specimens of erosion. The desperadoes chase the stagecoaches. Every so often someone gets shot, plunges from saddle or coachman's seat and rolls over & over. The hero plugs four desperate characters, largely because they hadn't lived long enough to learn that in bright sunlight a man's shadow can forecast his presence, however stealthy...
There Was a Time has the color-blind prose and inability to distinguish real emotions from salable affectations that were written all over earlier Caldwell works. But this time, instead of centering around rapacious industrial tycoons, it is a portrait of an artist as a young man. Frank Clair is born in the grimy English city of Leeds (Scottish-English Author Caldwell was born in Manchester); when he is still a boy, his parents bring him to the U.S. city of Bison (Author Caldwell's parents brought her to Buffalo, in whose outskirts she still lives...
...proposed change would empower the Secretary of State to screen arms buyers and distinguish between "aggressor and aggrieved, peacemaker and troublemaker." He could refuse licenses which were not "in accord with the foreign policy or the security interests of the United States." The embargo would apply not only to arms and munitions, but to anything intended "directly or indirectly" for foreign military forces...
...answer to a question concerning the right of Communists to hold labor union offices, Senator Pepper huffed, "I'm not afraid of anybody," and affirmed his "confidence in the ability of the American people to distinguish between foul and fair." He applauded our "traditional willingness to wrestle with ideas." In the Democratic Party (Pepper firmly opposes any Third-Party moves), his aim will remain converting it to a "truly liberal position which will really justify the two-party system...