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...Great Spirit of the Chewing Gum, gum of diverse kinds, we offer this prayer to thee. There is grandeur in chewing gum. It is our marvelous pet, an important accessory of mankind in this modern age. Chewing gum sweetens the breath, imparts a pleasant feeling, strengthens the stomach and calms anger ... It invites happiness. It attracts smiles. An enjoyable and intellectual life is made possible because of gum chewing ... O Great Spirit of the Chewing Gum, rest in peace...
...well told; Daniel's aunt, almost blind, terrorizes the home-folks by veering around town in her Studebaker, and lectures severely all cops who stop her; one of Lucy's Quaker forebears was renowned for advising a burglar, "Friend, I am going to shoot right where thee is standing." The author's charged, highly colored prose is almost always impressive, but occasionally it slops over into italics and suggests Robert Penn Warren at less than his best...
...thee to Gloucester, Essex. Do you to Wessex, Exeter...
...Boston and Washington, iceberg-cool critics put a sizable hole in its hull. Drifting into view on Broadway, Mr. President carried a trapped and talented crew that seemed to take comfort in huddling together at the finale to sing an Irving Berlin version of Nearer, My God, to Thee called This Is a Great Country ("If this is flag waving, flag waving, do you know of a better flag to wave?"). But unlike the "unsinkable" Titanic, Mr. President will take at least two years to go under; it has more than $2,650,000 in advance ticket sales...
...husband. Claire Bloom, a nymphoholic divorcee, goes for delivery boys and straight gin. Only Glynis Johns and John Dehner, as a sort of artsy-daftsy fun couple, manage to bring a whiff of fresh air to the otherwise musky proceedings. While declaiming "I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion" into a tape recorder one afternoon on the beach, Glynis gets trampled by a strapping pro football player, decides that a romp with this animated side of beef would give her a new outlook on life. The romp turns into a beery rout, and she wriggles home...