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...Henry Thoreau says," Grandma would begin, and Bertha's heart would sink; she figured (rightly most times) that it meant beans again. Bertha's favorite poem (secretly) was a parody of Emerson, reading By the rude bridge that arched the flood . . . Here once the bean-fed Thoreau stood. . . . She was envious rather than horrified by cannibal stories. Grandma Griswold's favorite horror story was about a deacon who wanted a Cooked Meal at night and, mind you, got up the next morning and wanted another...
...than the normal person, who does not always appreciate what he has in this world." Most sane and able artists professionally see "more than the normal person," and in this, as in what Dr. Bender called "the uncanny mysticism" of other pathological daubers, the case work on exhibit invited rude yells from that part of the public which likes to identify the artist with the screwball. What psychiatrists think about that was put simply by Bellevue's animated, mop-haired Dr. Paul Schilder: "A pathological person is forced down under the surface of everyday reality...
Then frisky fate dealt Tex Langford as rude a bulldogging as any Panhandle dogie ever got. In over the Potato Patch whisked last week's hurricane (see p. 11) at week's end Tex's dream was jagged driftwood on the Gravesend strand...
First half of Four Daughters is pure pastoral. Ann's romance with the composer Felix is getting along gayly when Mickey Borden (John Garfield) hitchhikes out from the city to orchestrate a piece of Felix's music. Ann has never met Mickey's type, dark, rude, bitter as stale tea. On the day she is meant to marry Felix she marries Mickey-a mistake, as cinemaddicts will spot immediately, for Felix is considerably more clean-cut. It takes a year's time and a melodramatic suicide to clear up the situation...
Inaugurating a Be Rude to People Week, Jim Grouch snarled "G'wan, go back to sleep. There must be some easier way to earn a living." He instructed his listeners: "Instead of saying nice things to your hostess when the cocktails are lousy, tell her they're lousy." When, last week, Jim Grouch backslid, tried to launch a Be Helpful Week, his listeners objected so strenuously that he cut the program short...