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...friendly. To his ironic and individualist eye, the U. S. S. R. is the dreary nadir of materialism and mass-compulsion, an "unworld." Sample of cummingsesque: "unstructure with eagles. Despair. A on filthy floorless sitting perhaps drunken nonman. Confusion, timidly. ("See the" )whispers("nomads")Turkess . . . (stolid hugely faces poke from rags & bags: sullen squat drearily scratching lost ghosts. Men. Grunt nonmen. Their pyramid-of fear, surfaced with asquirm naked babies-does not move. None have any shoes but some are wearing instead baskets, i is smoking). Turk drops coinlesses, a machine spews quai-tickets. Now (baggageladen 2)3 comrades, through...
...romantic themes from new Soviet novels, plays and poems, denounced romance as frivolous and out of keeping with the Five-Year Plan. During the summer such restrictions were relaxed but many a Red editor still shies at printing romance. Recently the famed Crocodile, satiric Soviet monthly, set out to poke fun at editorial 'fraid-cats, did it with a neat, significant short story which reached the U. S. last week...
...amiable son (Emlyn Williams), her frightened niece (Katherine Wilson); two plug-ugly footmen, one romantic, one comic and one effective police officer. Less vigilant spectators will be in anxious seats until Actor Williams begins to smile late in Act III. The cast of this loosely pasted thriller snoop, scream, poke their hands through false panels in professional manner. Actor Williams is particularly shrewd with his part. So is Actress Carlisle, who still commands the forensic gift with which she seconded the vice-presidential nomination of Calvin Coolidge...
...national policy is, thus, that of a Far Eastern Monroe Doctrine. The League of Nations is not necessary to Japan. We have no occasion to poke our nose into Europe's affairs. We should concentrate our efforts on the stabilization of Asia. . . . 'Back to Asia' is the watchword of our party. We may be forced to quit the League and China may renew her campaign against us. We must prepare for repetition of the Shanghai affair, and it is impossible to expect improvement in our relations with the United States; they are likely to become worse. . . . Extraordinary measures, in which...
...brave Yawalapiti would not for a long time touch the "egg" dropped by the sky-thing. When it gave out no sound, no movement, no smell, one brave ventured to poke it with his fishing spear. The sack uttered a tinkle. The Yawalapiti leaped upon it, ripped it with his sharp spear. Out fell knives, fishhooks and other trade goods-which delighted them...