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...shiver up the spine. Dark and light wash the stage in successive stages of mind. At last the ensemble unfolds in one amazing effect all the nymphs of Shades encircle Persephone go droop like the fronds of a dead flower and all stylization evaporates in a transport of pure and true musical emotion...
...bottle rockets and Black Cat firecrackers, is apt to be a lot more cheerful than the real thing. Still, viewed from an often difficult present, it seems that not many years ago, an ear of sweet corn and a gin fizz were enough to turn Independence Day into pure bliss...
...Fleshtones also pull some catchy melodies out of their musical bag. "Deep in My Heart," with its ubiquitous "cheesy" Farfisa and Zaremba's mock crooning matches Romans Gods's "Hope Come Back" for hook quotient, while the mockingly stupid "Screamin Skull" competes with the Cramps' "Human Fly" for pure schlock brilliance...
...objectivity at last what the public seeks from its reporters? Certainly, in matters as urgent as wars, no one wants impressionistic sketches or first-person pleas for conciliation, but it may be that pure objectivity is sought less than simple completeness, a good eye and ear for detail. People often have a hard time dealing with facts that distort their presumptions, but that is what they ask of their messengers: tell everything. The difficulty in war reporting is that no one, on any side, wants everything told. Everything includes cowardice, dishonor, the breaking of codes. He who tells everything represents...
...Quakers keep watch on the "unholy restlessness" that periodically seizes Ennistone, a madness lately exemplified by reported sightings of flying saucers and the peculiar behavior of George McCaffrey. The town does not take all the speculation about the automobile incident lightly but rather as "an example of how pure disorder at one level can cause a fall of moral barriers at another...