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...Dickens describes Seth Pecksniff in Martin Chuzzlewit as "a most exemplary man; fuller of virtuous precept than a copybook. Some people likened him to a direction-post, wnich is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there . . . His very throat was moral. You saw a good deal of it. You looked over a very low fence of white cravat . . . and there it lay, a valley between two jutting heights of collar, serene and whiskerless before you. His person was sleek though free from corpulency...
...faces life with all the artless perplexity of a man who has just seen his hat run over by a streetcar. His wife Indu (doe-eyed Leela Naidu) is disrespectful-when he criticizes her, she talks back. "They come like lambs and before long they are tigers at your throat," a friend explains. Finally, Prem hits on a plan: "I will send for my mother. She will teach you how to talk to your husband...
...touring novelist settled back for the onslaught. Would he talk about Steinbeck? "I'd rather die." J. D. Salinger? "He had an appalling effect on my children." Is there any hope for the U.S.? "If I didn't believe in America, I'd cut my throat tonight." Finally Steinbeck exploded: "Is there any way I can pry the tops off your heads to see what you are thinking...
Pulsed Beam. Working in an all but echoless 10-ft. by 13-ft. room lined with sound-absorbing wedges of glass fiber, Lockheed's scientists have set up a sort of searchlight with a sound generator in its throat. The researcher sits in a chair, covers his eyes with a blindfold and presses a button with his right hand. Out of the searchlight comes a beam of noise, 50 pulses per second, which sounds like a distant chorus of crickets and spring peepers. The mixed frequencies are higher than human ears normally hear, but the researchers have found that...
...full of the juice of life that Wife Jean Simmons can't decide whether the love she feels for him is sacred or profane. When "God takes him away," Actress Simmons, facing widowhood and the birth of another child, capably brings off several scenes of throat-filling pathos. Helping her along is the family -here presented as a gallery of bloodless tintypes except for Aline MacMahon, repeating her stage portrayal of Aunt Hannah, and Pat Hingle as Jay's bumptious undertaker brother, whose hands reek of formaldehyde. Finally, Mamma tells Rufus that his father isn't really...