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They pose as army recruiters. But Musgrave is a slow-witted Brechtian soldier of dumb pluck who believes that he has finally wised up to the ways of the wicked war breeders. He plans to string up the skeleton and then mow down the town bigwigs in wrathful reprisal, a mortal atonement for war guilt. His trigger finger is numbed by the playwright: "You can't cure the pox by further whoring." This is presumably Arden's pacifist manifesto...
...Alamos' new owners may have difficulty adjusting to life without Government paternalism. The Zia Co., which the AEC helped set up to maintain Los Alamos homes and neighborhoods at no cost to the residents, will go out of business, leaving homeowners to make their own repairs and mow their own lawns. Owners will also have to begin paying real estate taxes to the city of Los Alamos, which hopes eventually to attract private business and achieve a stable economy of its own. To smooth its path toward financial independence, the U.S. is donating Government-owned schools, a hospital...
...about a local nuisance subsequently known as the Civil War. Stewart wants none of it. He is not a slave owner. He peacefully tills "500 acres of good rich dirt" in the lush Virginia farm country, where heartwarming Early American cliches spring up like wildflowers, ready for him to mow down...
...Mow Those Lawns, Pull Dem Weeds...
...salute. Suddenly his mother begins banging a spoon against the banister downstairs: "Hey, your boiled egg is stone-cold." All right, luv. He goes to breakfast, gets ready for work, listens to Mum, Dad and Granny whining platitudes until he turns from his shaving mirror just long enough to mow them down with a tommy...