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...Watts was a smoldering ruin. Wisps of smoke still curled from the skeletons of charred buildings. Wrecked cars lay around the streets like swatted beetles. Sidewalks were buried under huge shards of glass and chunks of concrete that had filled the air at the riots' height. The glint of sunlight on thousands of brass cartridge casings gave the eerie look of an abandoned battlefield−which it was. "This is just a quietness," said a Negro minister. "The riot is not over...
...such chronic debtors, many psychiatrists detect a glint of masochism. "Consider the language of debt," says Manhattan's Dr. Harold Greenwald. "People have to 'beat someone out of his money,' or debtors are 'pushed to the wall' by their creditors." One of Greenwald's patients wept after he paid off his last creditor; he felt as if he were leaving someone who needed him. San Francisco's Dr. Alfred Auerback believes that overwhelming debt creates enormous tensions and strains within families. "Young people today," says he, "assume they should have...
Contemporary choral music owes a large debt to Randall Thompson. Throughout this century successive composers, each with a slightly more fiendish glint in his eye, have produced choral music that was less and less vocal, melodic, even singable; Thompson has maintained a style of choral writing distinctly congenial to the human voice. For there is more to his music than the lush harmonic changes and expressive dynamics; Thompson is fun to sing...
...anyone who can still remember the late Radio Comedian Fred Allen's dry wit, these letters will seem a disservice to Allen's ghost. To anyone who cannot, sorting through this epistolary mountain for the occasional glint of gold will seem hardly worth the effort. The nuggets are there all right; even in his casual correspondence, Fred Allen could not resist the comic muse, whether diagnosing his own health ("I find myself winded after raising my hat to a lady acquaintance") or commiserating with a toothless pal, who "has been living by sucking the butter off asparagus." Freelance...
...Charlotte's formula for terror, the nuttiest characters naturally turn out to be saner than anyone else. But there is rich menace in the dark, lushly mossy photography of Joseph Biroc, whose camera seems to have a malevolent presence of its own-a thing of shadows, catching the glint of an evil eye through the gossamer of steamed windows or sweeping up a curved balustrade that coils into the blackness below like an enormous question mark...