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...heaviest-Gene Lockhart and Andy Devine acting like boys of eight-the fantasy is both unfunny and mawkish. At its best-a flock of ancient socialites helplessly jiving Wagner's Evening Star-it has a weird, wild, death-dance vitality which shows how tame most deliberate surrealism...
Shear Sucker. At Bryants Pond, Me., Farmer Claude Cushman, who had sheared his flock during a warm spell, had to run around to the neighbors when the temperature dropped again, collect all cast-off sweaters that he could find for his shivering sheep...
...escapist Utopias that mush roomed in the shadow of the industrial revolution. Father Rapp's was the least suggestive of milk & honey. His first ven ture was in Germany. The spiritual leader of a flock of phlegmatic German peasants, Peasant Rapp was a mystic with a sound business head. In 1804 he brought his peo ple to the U.S. ''not because he believed that God's voice would speak out of the marsh more clearly than it had spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists...
...well-disciplined communists prospered even more, while the new son, Frederick, asked himself: Was not this holy continence "merely the end result of a system of covetousness?" In time such doubts were to spread through the Rappite harmony - but not for many years. Meantime Rapp had taken his flock to greener pastures in Economy, Pa. In May, 1824, Harmony, Indiana, was sold lock, stock & angel's footprint to a dreamy Welshman, Robert Owen, who believed in happiness, love and government without punishment...
...Engineers have the nation's top mile relay quartet and a flock of distance men and sprinters who give the squad plenty of depth and balance. Mikkola will counter with Pete Harwood, Bob Clark, and Bill Jenkins...