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...Paul's acting is almost as good as his music, before which I stand in silent awe. His melodies are simple, but clever and subtle. In their charm and sophistication, they reminded me of the Kurt Weill of The Threepenny Opera. The pit band is generally equal to the difficulties of the music, but the drummer's conventional beats are very inappropriate. You will be missing the early work of a brilliant musical talent if you miss Babel...
...long as Diem stays in power Vietnam will remain a bottomless pit for American money and lives. While American aid sustains him against the guerillas in the name of anti-Communism, Diem--by refusing to institute reforms--perpetuates and aggravates the conditions that feed rebellion...
Rotten Underneath. As recently as 1959 a newspaper exposé showed that Georgia's only mental hospital, saddled with the stigmatic name of State Hospital for the Insane at Milledgeville, was a monstrous snake pit. Behind the façade of an administration building that looks like the White House, it was crowded to its rotten, rat-infested rafters with 12,000 patients. At least 3,000 were senile oldsters who did not belong there-any more than the epileptics, dope addicts or alcoholics who jammed the hospital. Comparatively few patients ever got better, and those who did succeeded...
...conventional method of making steel, molten steel is poured from the furnace into molds, forming ingots. After cooling, the ingots are placed in pit-type furnaces, reheated, and then put on blooming mills and rolled into semifinished slabs. All this takes hours, and sometimes days; continuous casting takes less than an hour. In it, the furnace is set on a tower directly above a tall, vertical mold, which is water-cooled. As the mol ten steel is poured into the mold, it solidifies and inches downward, emerging as a glowing sheet of steel at the bottom of the mold, where...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, turns a college professor's living room into a lethal conversation pit. Poised at each other's jugulars, Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen are comic terrors to behold, and impossible to forget...