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...handsome blond Orphan (Michael Glenn-Smith) has been expelled from a celestial garden, but he has brought with him the stained-glass eye of God, his personal token of hope in the essential goodness of things. He meets an Angel (crestfallen) with grave dark eyes. This lovely girl (Susan Watson) tells the Orphan that she is tired of being a Nobody and wants to be a Somebody. Together they meet Potemkin, a master of ceremonies and revelers, played with winning guile by Keith Charles. Potemkin tells the Orphan that he has read that God is dead, so survival has become...
...survive, they must all deal with Mr. Rich (Ted Thurston). Old Rich has the classic ailments of age and wealth: he is impotent and bored. On New Year's Eve, Potemkin arranges for a love scene to be played between the Orphan and the Angel with the hope of restoring Rich to youthful virility, after which the old man is supposed to get the girl. Naturally, it does not turn out that...
...strange, unfriendly world. Young Balthazar's only male friend throughout his introverted existence is a chap named Beefy. An aristocratic orphan whose real name is also Balthazar, Beefy seems to be the protagonist's alter ego. Beefy is boisterous, tough, brawling, and given to priapic pranks. Starting with Beefy's expulsion from school for being a self-confessed "magnificent masturbator," their shared adventures-sometimes poignant, often comic-turn into wretched disasters...
...positive thinking and goes directly to its roots. As the essays reveal, these roots are inextricably bound up with Silone's own-with his youth among the landless peasants of the Abruzzi mountains, with his early religious training, with the earthquake that left him an orphan at 14, and with the Fascists, who killed his sole surviving brother. Many of these details appeared in Silone's contribution to The God That Failed (1949), a collection of confessional essays by ex-Communists, including Koestler and Richard Wright...
...LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE CALL THE EYE BANK...