Word: orphaned
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...Doubleday; $5.95), like the author's Pulitzer prize-winning Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, is a parody that echoes Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi. Basically, it is a stunt that may appeal to fanciers of literary ventriloquism. Like Tom Sawyer, Davey Burnie is an orphan with a pesky aunt who keeps scrubbing out his ears. Like Huck, Davey has a Negro pal, name of Commercial Appeal. Unfortunately. Commercial Appeal is killed in an early burst of Ku Klux Klan violence in Kentucky in the 1880s and cannot sail down the Mississippi with Davey. But down...
...lacked applicability within the Soviet Union, where audiences were confronted with entirely different sets of problems. Unforgiven on the left for his bourgeois origins and preoccupations, this son of a wealthy Bavarian paper manufacturer was simultaneously feared on the right. A self-made Marxist, Brecht was left an ideological orphan...
...USARPAC (U.S. Army Pacific), ramrodded by a dapper New England tactician, General Isaac Davis White, chafes under the knowledge that, for all its experience gained in Korea, it is still the orphan of the Pacific. In an area that demands a maximum of mobility, the Army must make its plan without any guarantee that it will get the ships or aircraft to move it where it has to fight. Army soreheads grouse that Felt would never use a soldier while there was a marine left in the Pacific. In the Pacific, perhaps the Army's most significant contribution...
...picture, with a few minor exceptions, sticks to the story like icing to a sugar bun. Pollyanna (Hayley Mills) is a poor little orphan girl, the eleven-year-old daughter of a kindly, idealistic clergyman who has "gone to heaven to be with mother" and left her in the British West Indies without "anybody but the Ladies Aid" and her Aunt Polly (Wyman), a middle-aged puckerpuss who lives all alone in a vast Victorian mansion somewhere east of the Mississippi and does good to her fellow townsfolk whether they like it or not. When Aunt Polly hears...
...LONG DELAYS AND EXCRUCIATING NATIONAL PUBLICITY HAVE CAUSED SUCH SUFFERING AS TO EXPIATE ANY CRIMES, NO MATTER HOW HEINOUS, ISN'T THIS EXACTLY COMPARABLE TO THE YOUNG MAN WHO KILLED HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND ASKED THE JUDGE FOR MERCY ON THE GROUNDS THAT HE WAS AN ORPHAN...