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...nine hundred million mental cases." And why did not Huxley heed the warning of one of his own characters that "Eastern philosophers are often rather bad talkers"? Weight of Dandruff. Huxley's hero is William Farnaby, a successful journalist who blunders into Pala by inadvertence and a fortuitous shipwreck. In Huxley's eyes, Farnaby represents a sickness in the soul of modern man. With his "flayed ferocious grin," Farnaby is aware of his own wretchedness and the corruption of the world to which he belongs, and there hovers about him a good deal of the sad seediness...
...these is overstatement. The action of the film is often unbelievable; one can't really see how a man who hadn't done any mountain climbing for five years could scale a sheer 400-foot cliff in a driving thunderstorm (after having just narrowly escaped death in a shipwreck...
Some yards up the flagpole, Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly was soon compiling a world sitting record (49 days, one hour), Sir Harry Lauder was acrrracking jokes in the Music Hall, and Gertrude Ederle was finning around in adjacent waters. For five years, a whale on a flatcar was a pier feature. The long tradition of diving horses was largely established by a formidable gelding named John the Baptist, a sort of box office Seabiscuit, who plunged for 30 years, always carrying a bareback and more or less barebodied female rider. Over the years, a prodigious, petition-length list of big names...
...colleges with elective curriculums-The Odyssey is the story of the long voyage home from the Trojan Wars of Odysseus, lord of Ithaca, to be reunited with his wife Penelope and son Telemachus. On the way, he and his men suffered such ordeals as imprisonment by brutish cannibal giants, shipwreck, seduction, famine and feast. Meanwhile, back at the palace, a half-hundred soft civilians squatted on the absent lord's domain, eating and drinking their heads off, seducing the maidservants, insulting the stripling heir, and competing for the honor of consoling the presumed widow. The whole bloody and wonderful...
...bold lad 10 years old"), Disney retains the whole famdamily (John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran) and most of the menagerie too-one of his press releases proudly points out that the film contains "some 150 myriad animals.'' But except for the shipwreck and the tree house and one or two minor incidents, he abandons the book's plot and substitutes more photogenic, made-in-Hollywood situations...