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Like so many of the plays that are slopped together these days, Isle of Children might have been good. But the basic and undeniable appeal of Patty Duke playing a child about to die will only stretch so far. Despite some fine moments, Isle of Children sinks under a tidal wave of bad acting, wooden direction, and terrible writing...
Last War. It was Von Wiegand's last war, but far from the end of his career. In 1945, he flashed a perceptive alarm to the West about the "Red Russian tidal flood . . . The war has loosened upon Europe the most powerful imperialistic force since Napoleon-totalitarian, Communist Soviet Russia." Eyesight failing, he roved restlessly about his old international haunts, a derring-do journalist, lost in the geopolitical maze of another era. In 1959, from New Delhi, he sent up another rocket: "Soviet Russia and Red China reportedly have agreed in Peiping to divide the globe north...
...couldn't get much farther away from himself than Pal's lost Atlantis. The dress and decor are a sumptuous mishmash of Greek, Roman, Renaissance, Assyrian, Mayan, Egyptian. Tartar, and Park Avenue highrise. Cauldrons boil, priests prophesy, volcanoes belch, lava pours, mountains move, buildings crumble, tidal waves tumble, and death-ray guns pulverize people and ships. The slaves in the House of Fear are turned into beasts of burden at the behest of a crystal-twirling caliph: "Now you will close your eyes. When you are commanded to open them, you will be a bull"-or a boar...
...calamitous day early in 1953, a howling northwester teamed with a wild spring tide. The resulting floods were the most disastrous to afflict The Netherlands in five centuries. Hardest hit were 1,300 square miles of Rhine and Meuse delta lands in The Netherlands' southwest, where tidal surges roared up estuaries and rivers, shattered 67 dikes, drowned 1,800 people and engulfed 375,000 acres of farmlands. In the aftermath, the public alarm was profound, and engineers swiftly blueprinted a $650 million plan to safeguard the delta forevermore by damming up four of the region's principal...
Finally, an enormous, 700-ton steel "guillotine" floodgate has been constructed on the Hollandsche Ijssel River. The huge gates can be clamped down on eight minutes notice when approaching tidal surges threaten the lowlands around The Hague and Delft, where 3,500,000 Dutchmen live. Expected completion of the entire Delta Plan...