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...sometimes hurtful, but essentially a joke perpetrated by clumsy bunglers who do not know that the laugh is on them. This may be both oversimplification and underestimation, but in Guareschi's hands the theory bears up entertainingly well. Communists hate to be spoofed. Guareschi, in his halfway perch between angry polemic and soft chuckle, makes fun of them. Peppone, for example, advises Comrade Lungo not to be alarmed because so many of the villagers believe in Jesus Christ...
...Limpert alludes to events of the past few years in which CRIMSON editors have borrowed Thresky from his perch and introduced him to chorus girls, College officials, and Russian delegates...
...fourteen ton affair, from its truck, and it nearly crashed to the ground anyway. All the bells were stored in a shack near Gore Hall while scaffolding was built along the sides of the tower. One winter alone was consumed in hoisting the carillon to its final perch...
...Greatest Explosion. What the corporal saw and reported from his own perch was the result of the biggest explosion ever set off by man. It happened several hundred miles away from Kwajalein, somewhere in the U.S. proving ground in the Marshall Islands. In a precautionary rehearsal of a formal test shot from an Air Force bomber that will take place sometime in the next two weeks, U.S. scientists had exploded a thermonuclear device atop a tower. The force of the blast completely surprised them...
Leading ornithologists in this country and England reported that the only metallic Ibis known to exist has been held for several years by the Lampoon, but that the bird has been mysteriously missing from its accustomed perch atop the building on Bow St. for over half a year...