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...development took place with explosive suddenness. Boys still in high school remember a time when sensible citizens considered space flight as impractical as hunting leprechauns. Only ten years ago the altitude record for rockets, 250 miles, was held a brilliant achievement. Only two years ago, the earth satellite, that humblest of space vehicles, seemed an almost impossible project...
...graveyards all over Boston: the Old Granary, the Old Charlestown, and the Old Dorchester Burial Grounds, and King's Chapel Cemetery. The Burial Ground at Copp's Hill, overlooking Charlestown and the river, is located "in the midst of a section of the city long since abandoned to the humblest and least favored population, but yet rich in historical material." Some of the stones, with the death's heads leaping faintly from them, are still marked by the bullets of the British soldiers who beseiged the city...
...Rome on a fellowship working on his third novel. He writes out of his own experience (his father was a New York grocer). In The Assistant, Malamud brings to his story of the poor not only pity without sentimentality and realism without bad taste; he gives their humblest acts a kind of foreboding excitement that can only spring from a conviction that they-the poor and the meek-will inherit the earth...
...graveyards all over Boston: the Old Granary, the Old Charlestown, and the Old Dorchester Burial Grounds, the King's Chapel Cemetery. The burial ground at Copp's Hill, overlooking Charlestown and the river, is located "in the midst of a section of the city long since abandoned to the humblest and least favored population but yet rich in historical material." Some of the stones, with the death's heads leaping faintly from them, are still marked by the bullets of the British soldiers who besieged the city...
...English at all. The Count of Clerembard, a French satire by Marcel Ayme, is a thorough delight and will soon be brought to America. Clive Brook, as the Count, is a bestial huntsman converted by a miracle to equally vehement Christianity. He decides that his son must marry that humblest of all creatures, the town prostitute (played by Mai Zetterling). Without sacrificing any humor, the play deepens from farce to genuine reverence. Its unresolved conclusion, called by one London critic "seatty and sacreligious," is just the opposite, if there is an antonym for "seatty." The Count...