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...merchandise they had heard of they often bought it with a grand flourish, thus recommending its advantages and their expertise to friends. Most of them were feeling the gorge of possessive passion that comes when one is first deeply convinced that he is going to Harvard; the only flaw is that the beer mugs and stationery purchased in this fit don't evaporate with...
Faustian Galaxy. To eliminate this apparent flaw in an otherwise symmetrical universe, Stannard suggests that there is another universe "embed ded in the same space-time framework" as man's-only its time runs backward. Such a "Faustian"* universe, he says, would be unobservable by earthmen because Faustian matter would not in teract with normal matter; it would separate out into planets, solar systems and galaxies...
...spray of a fire hydrant. They depict the plight of slum children with touches of humor and pathos. One story tells of a kid who moves to Manhattan's Tenth Street and has to beat up the toughest boy on the block to be accepted. Main flaw in some books is that the integration is too tidy: illustrations too often show exactly three kids together-one Negro, one Puerto Rican and one white...
...Quartet's handling of the music emphasized those places in which there was a definite sense of increasing tension followed by release. This was particularly evident in the first movement, and less so in the second and third. The overall performance was in every was satisfactory despite a mechanical flaw (a string broke) in David Soyer's cello...
Neither Right nor Left. Some observers feel that as a cartoonist, Scarfe exhibits an almost fatal flaw: they argue that he lacks moral discrimination. "A great talent," says Punch Editor Bernard Hollowood, "but he's too much concerned with nostrils, nipples and navels." Scarfe could reply that his critics are too cocksure of their own politics and resent his lack of dogma. "I try to avoid any political bias in my cartoons," says Scarfe, who does indeed heap abuse on every shade of opinion. "I'm neither for the right nor for the left. I simply must deride...