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...turn recall his malevolence from seven points of view the seven deadly sins. In each kaleidoscopic event, they are searching for the one clue that will explain his cal nature. At the same time, however, the play is more than a search for the last place in a jig-saw puzzle. Johnson has much to say about the tendency of every man to see in others his own greatest flaw; about the difficulty of re-creating the image of a man from a variety of half-true impressions. Each narrator, whether friend or lover, sees only part of Swift...
...Senegalese professional grinned, and capered into a happy jig: "Au revoir chérie, la guerre est finie!" A French paratrooper sipped his Pernod: "In France they are happy tonight. I too am glad that no more will be killed-but there is nothing for us here to be proud of." And in Hanoi's sandbagged Citadelle, where once he had wept at the fall of Dienbienphu, General Cogny put his career on the line. "The free world has not lived up to its responsibilities," said Cogny. "There have been too many deaths for too few results, too many...
...Next he wants a jointer for cutting precise corners, which costs him $130. Then he wants something to drill deep, accurate holes, and so buys a drill press for $100. As he graduates to fancier work, and starts putting intricate filigrees in his woodwork, he needs a jig saw, and that costs $65. The heavy curved lines on his masterpieces now call for a band saw at $250. If his furniture is to have legs, he must buy a lathe for $200 to turn them. And if he really wants to turn out professional work (as he usually does...
They worked so effectively that the 2,000 tons of Communist infantry weapons that Arbenz imported last month were worthless-and he had no fighter planes of his own. As fear and tension grew in Guatemala, it became plain that the Communist jig...
...colonial route leading to Hanoi. It was jammed by tens of thousands of Communist coolies and Russian-made Molotov trucks, and they escaped notice in the turbulent swarm. On the third night, however, they ran up against a check point where they could not give the password, and the jig was up. Workers Like Ants. Punishment was light-their shoes were confiscated for two days, during which they had to march. The Reds' view was that the escape try had been stupid rather than criminal. One officer explained: "Of course, you're fresh from colonial slavery...