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...with a volume of Milton's poems when no one is looking. Some notable support is furnished the frowning, fighting actors by Newcomer Alexander Knox as the author stranded aboard the Ghost and by Barry Fitzgerald, as the ship's cook. For restless cinemaddicts whom only blood & thunder can quiet, The Sea Wolf should prove a strong sedative...
Charley Turquoise and the Short Man's Grandson were making the ritualistic sand painting that forms the climax of the five-day Navajo Thunder Chant. The painting should have been made in a hogan, or House of Song, built of cedar logs and mud, with its entrance facing east. The Museum of Modern Art couldn't supply a hogan, but Charley and the Short Man's Grandson were always careful to enter their sand painting from the east. Because the Thunder Chant's sand-painting medicine was strong medicine, and any pictures of it might make...
...able to catch all he sings, but you'll get the point through his sly winks and infectious laughs. The songs are quaint, the comedy refreshing, and everything is very different from the ordinary picture. If you are tired of bed-room comedies and blood and thunder histories, you'll find that the "Song of the Road" is a gratifying change...
...women. A boy who had been ignored all his life by an unstable mother and an alcoholic father believed that he was in constant danger, that he would die in five years. He found relief by identifying himself with the invulnerable Superman. For normal children: "Desire for blood and thunder is not depraved, and satisfying it by reading the comic books is a relatively innocuous and socially acceptable form of its release. It would seem to offer the same type of mental catharsis to its readers that Aristotle claimed was an attribute of the drama...
Myadestes, less embarrassed, opened its beak and began to warble to a whir of clockwork which sounded like distant thunder. All day, weekdays and Sundays, with an audience or without, the obliging bird repeated its performance every hour on the hour...