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...trick of perspective to eerie effect by playing out the story of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar with a cast of sewer rats. Her most persistent theme: a lament over man's inhumanity to beasts. As a thoughtful cat tells a shepherd dog in a message from the realm of the dead: "Beware of death: tell them [those-who-walk-on-two-paws] that the Styx will roll along their white skulls in the infernal regions while the animals on the shores howl with...
...example, Bishop Marling cites a study by a Catholic priest, "at home in the psychic realm," of St. Teresa of Lisieux (1873-97), who seems to have suffered a severe obsessional neurosis...
...objectionable." Hopalong Cassidy, said NAFBRAT, is "objectionable because of typical Western crime element." At Captain Midnight, "even the stronghearted falter," and Jungle Jim episodes are a "mixture of kidnaping, torture, unbearable suspense, horrible screams." NAFBRAT also condemned Superman ("Youngsters believe his 'super' talents to be within the realm of possibility. In this lies the danger") and Little Rascals (". . . flaunting their impudent behavior before the helpless adults. Could there be a worse example for our children...
...hour Grand Prix of Endurance. But the good citizens of Le Mans and the nervous officials of France's Automobile Club de I'Ouest also remembered that les -vingt-quatre heures mean a grand influx of 1) hundreds of thousands of visitors, and 2) coin of the realm. So they worked out a compromise between dollars and danger. They widened the road, beefed up the grandstand, and optimistically wrote some strict rules for cars and drivers...
...N.Y.U.'s Center for Human Relations Studies and its Center for Community and Field Services, stumped the country for a school that would be merged with the community. "In this human-centered universe," said Melby, "there is no perfect hierarchy of truth, there are no criteria beyond the realm of experience . . . Anything to be learned must be lived . . . The building of a bridge may be more effective in teaching Johnny Jones to think than the study of Plato...