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...table should remark: "Beethoven's Quartet, Opus 18, Number 6, is truly magnificent," the Prepared Hostess will instantly reply (preferably with an imperceptible flutter of the eyelashes): "Yes. but Bartok scores the gaps. That's the difference." This will immediately show the guests that she is the sort of person who knows about hollyhocks, and almost guarantee that the guests will hurry home to hunt up their copy of this week's TIME, flip quickly to NATIONAL AFFAIRS, and read Fried Shoes...
...hear about the disk jockey who stayed on the job for 200 hours without any sleep? Sure it was a sort of pressagent stunt. But medical researchers are hard to intimidate. They'll go to any unlikely place to get at the facts, and they wanted to learn more-they already know a little -about what happens to a man's mind and body when he goes without sleep. The medicine men, lured by the scent of big data, moved in on the ballyhoo of a Times Square stunt, set up an elaborate laboratory in the Hotel Astor...
...were to stop this business outright, we might be doing something which would.be pretty dangerous." Girls on the streets are a nuisance, he conceded, but he felt it was better than spreading the corruption to "part-time pimping" by cab drivers, elevator operators, hotel porters-the same sort of organized vice that "there is in New York...
THOSE lines by the late Poet Wallace Stevens, Connecticut insuranceman, might have seemed sheer Mandarin to most of his clients-but not to a Chinese. Chinese painters ignore the iron bonds of perspective (which imply a stationary viewer and make the picture frame a sort of window frame) and strive instead for the stroller's leisurely view...
...deluded intrigues of nihilists, whom Camus makes strongly reminiscent of modern Marxists. Perhaps the play's chief quality is Camus' adroit emphasis of Nikolay Stavrogin (ably played by Pierre Vaneck), the book's most memorably monstrous character. An empty-souled aristocrat, Stavrogin longs to be a sort of Nietzschean superman. He instigates a band of young revolutionaries to murder, rapes his landlady's little daughter, finally commits suicide. In the hands of Camus, Stavrogin emerges as a modern man, a desperate seeker of God who does not know where to look. Says another character...