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...strong is the stuff in this play and so afraid are certain people to deal with truth that cuts and burns at training and tradition, that they walk out???three or four of them?at nearly every showing. Bride of the Lamb is blasphemous...
...alive, in a desert railway shed. The boy is not found. Back on the farm, Mary's hatred for Elliott shades into insane belief in the boy's return, insanity that rasps into Elliott until answering hatred is aroused in him. Their lives stand stark, brutal, and he blurts out???something that overshadows his ineffectualness and her pettiness, a fact terrible enough to make them see themselves pinned together inseparably in the vise called Life...
...darkness of night. A casual pedestrian, had he chanced to pass the House of Commons, would probably have stopped to admire its solemn dignity. His eye would have strayed upward, climbed the tower on which sits "Big Ben" and would have seen the light which shines above go out???the sign that a session had just ended. Not many minutes earlier, a weary man had risen from the Treasury Bench to make his way?some few hundred yards to his downy bed. . . . Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been battling for his maiden budget...
...When the war broke out???the Civil War?Walter Newman Haldeman was publishing the Louisville Journal and had a son, William Birch, but 14 years of age. The Journal was suppressed because of its Southern sympathies and some two years later the son ran away from Forest's Academy to enlist in the 9th Kentucky Infantry, the famous Orphan Brigade (Confederate). He fought at Chickamauga and was wounded. Then he shipped as a midshipman in the Confederate Navy. But gunboat service was not exciting enough for him. He went back to his old company and finished the war with...
...three miles, four miles. Still no bottom. Five miles, and the drum still paid out the wire. Down, down, six miles. The wire was not much longer. Still the lead went down. At last, the drum stopped rolling. Nearly six and a quarter miles of wire had been paid out??? 32,644 ft.?the end of the wire; and still the lead dangled clear of the bottom far, far down in the absolute dark of the cold sea; and little fishes, strange little monsters with radio-light spots, wandered around it in the deep...