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...continual re-introduction of a familiar joke. In a scene between Myrrhine, who is upholding chastity regulations, and Kinesias, her husband, the lady breaks off caresses and runs away for little extras--a bed, a coverlet, a pillow, perfume--that she insists they have before lying down. Each new errand should bring a laugh--except that Carla Barringer (Myrrhine) exits the same way each time...
...Example: "The Orchid Girl fades into memory picture on outhouse skin forgotten-Green Tony the last invisible shadow-Call the Old Doctor twice on last errand?-caught in the door of Panic, Mr. & Mrs. D.-last round over-a street boy's morning sky-flesh tape ebbing from centuries-Remember i was movie played you a long last goodnight...
Clenched Fists. In his 20s during the '30s, Bendiner managed to find work as a switchboard operator-errand boy-editorial assistant-reporter-managing editor for a variety of magazines, including New Masses and Nation. His account of life with the Old Left shows how wise the Communists were in denouncing him as an enemy of the people...
...Errand Boy. Indeed, some U.S. policymakers caviled at Thant's plan. For one thing, they pointed out, the Secretary-General did not specify with any degree of clarity whether or not the U.S. air war against North Viet Nam, which he calls "an insurmountable obstacle to discussions," would have to be suspended as a precondition to the truce. For another, they noted that any such truce could become a trap. They recalled in particular how the Chinese Communists, routed in the battle of Szepingkai in 1946 and on the brink of losing all of Manchuria to Chiang Kai-shek...
...urged a mutual truce rather than a unilateral U.S. deescalation, the Administration moved with alacrity to accept his proposal as "constructive and positive." Hanoi thereupon broadcast a scathing denunciation of Thant for having made "no distinction between the aggressors and the victim of aggression," while Peking branded him "an errand boy for Washington...