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...through the windows glaring orange out of a hundred majestic black bastions, the committees are seen as they come calling, catching sophomores just accidentally attired from top to toe in immaculate tweeds, and Exeter yearbooks displayed with casual prominence...
...With a toe-danced hoedown, a flight of several light-years into the abstract, an astringent costume piece and last week's boisterous blast of Fourth of July fireworks, Balanchine accomplished the richest and most varied season of his immensely productive career...
...party leader. The writers' conclusion: class origin. Said a party spokesman with obvious relief: "Liu was raised in a rotten landlord family; his mind was inscribed with words like 'Bring honor to your ancestors.' " Liu, decided the party, had become a person "mercenary from head to toe," and-pending repentance-all publishers would refuse Liu's creations from that day forward...
...There are too many of them." says James (The Wonderful 0) Thurber. "The trouble is, everyone thinks he can write a children's book." Picture books range from the sophisticated cutouts of Italy's Bruno Munari in Tic, Tac and Toe to the bold line drawings of Kurt Wiese for Claire Huchet Bishop's classic The Five Chinese Brothers; nature shines in Roger Duvoisin's The House of Four Seasons and James Fisher's The Wonderful World of the Sea; the infancy of the human race lies in Ella Young's evocation of Gaelic...
...fact was that Elsie May Keene was not sick at all. Before she began her rounds as a special investigator working for the State Board of Medical Examiners, she had been checked by physicians from crown to toe, pronounced in excellent health. Last week Attorney General Will Wilson told her stories as he staged a Texas-style roundup, corralled 61 naturopaths in 29 counties. Wilson asked for court injunctions to restrain them from practicing. At his heels in what they called "Operation Quack Quack," district attorneys were proceeding against the 61 on criminal charges (unlawful practice of medicine), possibly graver...