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...Ancelots are lower down in the social scale, but just as disorganized. Papa Ancelot, a shoestring operator in the stock market, rails at his giddy daughters for going around with gigolos. But the daughters have found that they can distract Papa from his tirades by pushing him into the receptive arms of the housemaid. Mama and daughters work up fervors over Russian films, talk yearningly about the coming French revolution. One daughter guesses that 500,000 heads will fall. "I find [the idea] breathtakingly pure," replies Mama Ancelot...
...further illustrate the weakness of most people's power of concentrates, Boring asks the class to count the number of clicks ticked off by a machine. He starts the machine, then tries to distract students by miscounting with them, He turns off the device and asks for the total. Most people offer the wrong number, Boring says...
...that decision will be made in Moscow, not in Washington. And since the U.S. insists on minimizing Asia, why not (Stalin may reason) pick off the rest of Asia, starting with Korea, continuing with Indo-China, gobbling up Malaya and Indonesia, meanwhile rattling the saber in Europe to distract American effort...
What is deep, as love is deep, I'll have Deeply. What is good, as love is good, I'll have well. Then if time and space Have any purpose, I shall belong to it. If not, if all is a pretty fiction To distract the cherubim and seraphim Who so continually do cry, the least I can do is to fill the curled shell of the world With human deep-sea sound, and hold...
...sundry gypsies and Lester Lanin. Drop down a couple of blocks to 152 E. 55th Street, if you prefer, and be amused by a half-dozen entertainers while you cup at the Blue Angel. Le Huban Bleu 4 E. 56th, features no less then ten nightclub artists to distract you during supper. Le Coq Rouge, just down the block from Le Ruban at 65 E. 56th, supplies Phil D'Arey's trio and Eddie Davis's orchestra. There is dancing here, very hard while you're eating but not bad if you're drinking. If you are after the best...