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...watch TV tell it, the U.S. teacher has long been a simple sap like "Mr. Peepers." Now comes a turnabout. He is "Mr. Novak," hero of a new weekly series about a dedicated young high school English teacher. In the resounding words of the producer, Teacher Novak "wages war five days a week against ignorance, intolerance, cruelty and injustice. For this, the board of education pays him $5,842 and gets more than its money's worth...
...dipped his brush. After drawing out 30 cc. of his own blood, he decided that this method was too slow, went to his local blood bank, which obligingly drew off another 20 cc. of his blood. It was enough to finish the job, though he decided not to sap his strength further by adding Chaliapin's background dragon. He sent the painting to Nehru, and last week it was auctioned off along with other objects contributed from all over India. Hingorani's blood offering fetched the day's top price of $273.21, outdrawing such items...
...tossing out potted plants. When the bonfires cooled next morning, 14 of Princeton's fiercest Tigers were booked and bailed. "Shocking," said Princeton President Robert F. Goheen. whose wrought-iron fence was shorter by 30 ft. after the rumpus. Philosophized Governor Hughes: "It's spring, and the sap begins to run." The annual undergraduate sugaring-off rites scorched the ivy elsewhere in the league. At Yale, tipped-off police hoped to forfend a fracas by locking the freshmen inside the Old Campus. But the freshmen broke out, chanting "We want sex, we want sex," as they streaked...
Quouquou often reminds me of other beloved cinematic innovators, such as the great Basque director Urethra Farrebique and her sad, clever husband Max Weber. For Quouquou does not force us to "sap life with art," as Antoine Sibile has put it in a recent issue of Les Fesses. He does not force us, in fact, he lets the whole religious force of his thought sweep over us. And, like a heaven sent storm, even the bilge it leaves in the scuppers of our mind is full of salt. A description of one scene should be enough to prove my point...
When the bark is stripped off, the wood bleeds blood-red sap that enforces the symbolism. The felled trunks, each with a wide buttress root attached, are carried into the village, where the women greet them with rejoicing as if they were enemy corpses. The women, says Dr. Gerbrands, are more deeply religious than...