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...TOUCH OF THE POET is the only extant play (the author tore up the others) of that final series in which Eugene O'Neill meant to spell out the dark, brooding mysteries of the human tragedy...
...ghostly white beach. Communist shells were pounding over. We ran for it, and came smack up against barbed wire. Ducking into a bunker, we watched the second landing barge glide by like a sea monster. The third landing craft, carrying a group of U.S. military assistance advisory personnel, tore its bottom on an underwater barricade, and the U.S. officers, their gear lost, slogged ashore through neck-deep water...
...trend now: a big winner will have to flub the easy ones to make the American public look good." Eventually, said Herb, Enright told him, "We've reached a plateau. We need a new face." Herb was forced to lose to Van Doren-and that tore...
...unsuspecting male. "Give me an article in an office that starts with S," Doris said to a woman. The responses were slow and inept, and Doris blew up like a temperamental movie director. "Do it like this," she cried. "An explorer that starts with M?" She snapped her fingers, tore at her hair, looked agonized, then beamed and shouted: "Oh, that must be the guy they named the straits after-Ma, Ma something. Oh yeah! Magellan. See? You gotta ham it up. Don't just blurt it out. Hold it back, stretch for it. But whatever...
...afternoon a cluster of Communist officials turned up at the monastery and started ransacking it. When a female clerk tried to phone her superiors, a buxom Anna Pauker type snatched the phone out of her hands and tore it from the wall. The Communists did not stop to examine their loot: papers and mimeograph machines were dumped helter-skelter into sacks. Soon an angry crowd of pilgrims formed outside the building, and one official nervously summoned the police. Police arrived armed with gas masks and swinging truncheons...