Word: quicksands
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...ineluctable rush of life. Perhaps it is moving precisely because it is a play of the spirit that moves from death toward life. The mother is throttled by her illusions, the daughter is felled by the brute strength of the world, and the gentleman caller founders in the anonymous quicksand of being average. But the son Tom, the writer-to-be in this distinctly autobiographical play, is about to be born to his vocation and to the appalling and enthralling adventure of becoming himself...
Plenty for King Idris. No such political quicksand threatens oilmen in Libya, where relations with the government have been stable and happy (with fifty-fifty profit-sharing) ever since Standard of New Jersey brought in the first big field in 1959. Since then, output has shot up so fast that Libya now ranks eighth among the world's oil-producing nations, and this year's $250 million oil income will account for 80% of King Idris' revenues. Of 20 companies active in Libya, 13 are American...
...grappling hook he has made, the man at last escapes from the pit. Free! In rapture he races aimlessly among the big black dunes. In horror he feels the sand give way beneath his feet. He has escaped from one pit only to fall into another-a pit of quicksand! "Help!" he screams. "Help!" His life is saved but his freedom is lost; the men who pull him out of the quicksand put him back in the pit. In blank hatred he stares at the sand, at his fate...
...also harvested the surprise support of the Saturday Evening Post, which has been Republican ever since the party was founded in 1854. "Barry Goldwater's tongue is like quicksilver," said the Post in a back-page editorial explaining WHY LYNDON JOHNSON MUST BE ELECTED. "His mind is like quicksand . . . changes 'convictions' almost as often as his shirt ... a grotesque burlesque of the conservative he pretends...
...calculated dramatic climaxes, Marathon '33 acquires the conviction of life as naturally as a city street gathers soot. With this production, Actors Studio Theater at least suggests, if it does not sustain, new directions for a theater that can no longer afford to stand still in the quicksand of Broadway formula...