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Where there's tyranny, there's tyranny, not only in the gun barrel, not only in the prison cell, not only in the torture rooms . . . There is tyranny in the facial expression firmly set like iron bars, and in the stillborn tormented cry of pain within these bars...
...time when contemporary American drama consists largely of stillborn carbon copies of Ibsen, Shaw and Chek- hov, Kerr departs from realism, naturalism and contemporary social problems. Turning to Aristophanic comedy and American history, he weaves a very refreshing and unusual play that injects new life and variety into the Iceberg American theatre, and which, baring the bedrock of American ideals and tradition, reveals the strains of a nation's soul through song, fables and poesy, and so utterly avoids didactic realism...
...party was the idea of Antonia's father, Dr. Charles Stevens, who firmly believes that the way to protect his daughters against the danger of having stillborn or malformed children as a result of German measles (rubella) infection early in pregnancy (TIME, Dec. 31) is to make sure they catch the disease long before they are married. So far the virus has not been grown well enough to prepare a vaccine, so the only way a girl can get a case -and lifelong immunity-is from direct exposure to another victim. If Antonia catches it, incubation will take...
...previously vouchsafed (TIME, Aug. 20). Ellen had pestered many publishers to vent her polemic, but had failed to crash through with a manuscript. Muttered one Chicago literary agent: "She had a good title, and that was about it." Despite her provocative title, Ellen Borden Stevenson insisted that her stillborn work "did not concern or discuss the personal life of Candidate Stevenson." To appease breathless bibliophiles, she let prying newshawks in on one fragment of admonition that would have appeared in Egghead. Advice to the Lovelorn Voter advises...
...weighed 13½ lbs. at birth, and in the delivery his head was badly ripped by the forceps, and one of his ear lobes was torn away; he carries the scars to this day. The doctor laid the unbreathing baby on the bed. thinking him stillborn, and turned to save the mother. Frank survived because his grandmother snatched him up and put him under the cold-water faucet...