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...year-old draftsman husband, an infant daughter, her mother, a dog and three sullen cats is the most precocious and prolific ornament in a new British literary clique that might be called the Sad Young Girls. Unlike the Angry Young Men, who exercised their spleens against a rotten and unjust world, the Sad Young Girls find the world deliciously sad-and despairing about it is a jolly good way to enjoy it. Author Mackay's hero is a 23-year-old dwarf whose chief problem, as someone remarks, is that "it's only his mind that...
...James $75,000 in compensatory and $500,000 in punitive damages. Summing up his opinion of Powell, Justice Wahl indignantly paraphrased a famous insult attributed to Virginia's 19th century Senator John Randolph: "He is a man of splendid abilities, but he shines and stinks like rotten mackerel by moonlight...
Predictably, the interconnection?or grid?system of itself came under fire. Whatever its virtues or failings, Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken suggested, "we should construct our power system so that if one egg goes rotten, the others won't." Another clear lesson to many experts is that vast, interlocking grids need to be policed more closely. Under existing law, the Federal Power Commission is empowered only to regulate interstate wholesale electric-power rates, issue permits and licenses for hydroelectric power plants, and perform other bookkeeping chores. The power companies themselves decide what lines will be linked together...
...clerical celibacy was sparked by an article, written by a priest, advocating modification of the church's rule against married clergy. Readers also provide most of the items for "Cry Pax!", a weekly column noting with deadpan wit the latest in churchly foibles-such as that the movie Rotten to the Core was approved by the Legion of Decency, or that a Brooklyn firm sold costumes modeled after the garb of priests, bishops and nuns for trick-or-treating children to wear in celebration of "the religious meaning" of Halloween...
...tell Lucille the truth of the matter. Blanchard comes back briefly to tell his wife to leave his house. To Armand's great consternation, Lucille doesn't fill her husband in on Paola's revelation. Paola, delighted, announces she has won the duel and has proved that life is rotten. O no, cries Lucille, and producing a phial of poison, she kills herself, to prove, so she says, that the world has purity and worth. Exit Paola. Barbette delivers a soliloquy to the corpse about what beasts men are, meanwhile purloining Lucille's jewelry. Curtain...