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...cavalry rarely does charge into ordinary lives. One might suspect that Schwartz and his colleagues had all been invited to tea by John Marcher-the hero of Henry James's The Beast in the Jungle, whose distinguishing mark was that nothing ever happened to him-and that halfway through someone had slammed the door closed, leaving the quarterly writers locked inside...
Bombs in the Garden. One group in particular difficulty was the team of Seventh-day Adventist missionaries and their families. 29 people in all, trapped in their mission building. They were at a dangerous spot: halfway between U.N. headquarters and an important Katanga army building a few hundred yards away. For hours the missionaries ducked, as blast after blast struck their walls and plowed up the garden outside. Then they realized that badly aimed bazooka shells from the U.N. compound itself were doing the damage; during a lull in the firing, they hastily evacuated the buildings...
Misalliance, by George Bernard Shaw. Halfway to Heartbreak House but twice as blithesome and half as apocalyptic, this 1910 play gives the Edwardian British upper classes the chance to talk their heads...
...halfway point in the Combined Charities Drive was reached and passed Tuesday night when $12,500 of the $24,000 goal was collected. The Yard again led the Drive, tallying $2,900 of the $5,990 contributed on the second...
...sets his novel in the 1970s, the reader knows that a message is coming, probably on wings of allegory. British Novelist Angus Wilson, who has until now been content to annotate skillfully the thesis that people are unbelievably nasty (Anglo-Saxon Attitudes), sets the time of his new novel halfway between now and 1984, and the place is the London Zoo. Only a Symbol Simon could fail to read a message here...