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...movie, "In Love with Life", drips with sentiment, and includes an all-star cast of non-entities. An adamant, self-centered grandfather, his estranged daughter and her son, and a harmless professor are all brought together at the end to form one big, happy family. There is an excellent short of hunting coyotes by airplane. A whimateal cartoon, "Robin Hood" and a Thelma Todd comedy complete a bill that will well repay a few hours snatched from the last-minute cram...
...welcome of the German cruiser "Karlsruhe" to Boston Harbor on May 17 promised to be an admirable opportunity for these cozy little factions to display their spiritual vigor. Representatives of all were gathered early near the Navy Yard and a few practice volleys of harmless but obscene insults were exchanged as the agitators limbered...
...trains and boats-all for a flat monthly payment. In 1953 they threw in a life and disability insurance policy. In 1959 they added medical service complete. ... At the end of 1969, an agreement was reached whereby the asylums of the country filled all political offices with harmless nuts suffering from delusions of grandeur. . . . On July 4. 1981, the last flyswatter on earth was publicly burned.-Journalist Walter B. Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty, More Power to You). ¶ Within ten years fruit from California or Turkestan will be served in London with all the freshness and taste of freshly...
Skunks are pretty beasts, harmless unless unduly angered by crass attempts upon their lives; and, indeed, if let alone would doubtless lead a selfish existence with little thought of harm. But not to be allowed the freedom of our green is indeed a trial not easily to be withstood. If we let cows come to our lawn, why not let the gentle pussy of the wood; why must we moderns always be so eager to destroy each sign of placid sanity in our hurried life? And why, oh, why, have we no thanks for the Gentle beast who thus...
...mirthful satirist, Valentine Kataev . . . into a faithful Sunday School moralist of the five-year plan"; the groveling recantation of Panteleimon Romanov; the humiliation of Boris Pilnyak, president of the Russian Authors' League, who was forced to save his skin by rewriting a "harmful" book into a "harmless" one; the refusal of Isaac Babyel to publish anything at all under present conditions. A scornful disbeliever in the Communist theory that Art must be Propaganda, Author Eastman is a Communist first but a literary man all the time. He says Lenin also thought it nonsense that bureaucrats should interfere with...