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...vein of compromise, the failure to carry anger" for very long, the tendency to become too clever for wrath, weakens him when he is compared with Swift. Compared with Voltaire's, his imagination is drier, lacks picture and lacks nature too. A kind of middle-class gentility preserved him from the great disgusts, the unspeakable horrors which greater imaginations could grasp. The prose is, however, a superb vehicle for the pamphleteer and any page of it is a model of the art of conducting unfair arguments. He was a highly original artist and the art lay in the transmuting...
...Washington beauty parlor last week a customer under a drier relieved 16 boredom by listening to the Third Man Theme through earphones. In Boston, a dentist drilled away at a patient who was listening to Brahms's popular lullaby In New York City, a plastic surgeon about to operate clapped earphones on the patient, then used his scalpel while the patient listened to the tune, Lovely to Look At In Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, an expectant mother was prepared for delivery of her baby while the strains of Victor Herbert's Toyland came through speakers concealed...
...Ivan R. Tannehill, also of the Weather Bureau, is less skeptical. He thinks the U.S. climate is really getting warmer and probably drier too. His tentative explanation: a slow increase in radiation from...
Even in its drier passages The Town is always readable, full of a sweet nostalgia that only occasionally spills over into sentimentality. Its publisher announces it as part of "a great American epic," which is overstating the case. The Town is something more modest but almost as enjoyable, a good bit of fictional Americana...
...does not the rabbi run? He cannot move; the chained Beast in the corner has entangled him. The mother under the drier, seen in the mirror, is already being burned...