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Harvest. By the time Khrushchev announced his new agricultural program last month, Lysenko was reaping a sweet political harvest. On his 60th birthday he won his seventh Order of Lenin. When someone complained to the Central Committee that the official Botanical Journal had disparaged the old tree grafter's views, Khrushchev interrupted: "The editorial staff should be replaced." When the speaker then added that some Soviet scientists last year had said Lysenko was "through both in theory and in practice." Khrushchev cut in: "Tsitsin [a distinguished botanist in the Academy of Sciences] said it. He should have been asked...
Follow the Leader. Eisenhower Backer Halleck (who golfs with Ike at Burning Tree more than anybody else on Capitol Hill) became majority leader for the second time after Eisenhower's 1952 victory. His party loyalty code soon led him to support policies of the middle-roading Administration, e.g., public housing, reciprocal trade, foreign aid, with the same narrow-eyed gung ho he had mustered against the same programs for 17 years. He did not flinch. "Damn you, you've got to be with us on this one," he twanged at reluctant colleagues. "The President needs your support...
Slowly, the flood subsided and lost itself in the waters of Lake Sanabria. On the surface floated the bodies of men, women and children. Dead cows, pigs and chickens were mingled indiscriminately with tree trunks, telegraph poles, rooftops, household goods. A man caught in his home floated to safety on the inflated rubber mattress on which he was sleeping. The innkeeper, who escaped to the hillside, went back to empty his cash register and was drowned. Just before the water hit, an elderly couple dashed back for their life savings. They disappeared. Of the village's 500 inhabitants...
...good idea to use a harp in the ghost music. The Play Scene, for another instance, ends in a very ecstasy of lighting and musical effects which succeed in diverting attention from what is actually going on: you can't see the forest for the tree-surgeons...
...remarks that the unmarketable apples that the pickers disdain to harvest are actually choice: "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." But times have changed since Anderson's masterpiece appeared in 1919. Nowadays it is precisely the twisted fruits of humanity-as plucked from the tree of American life by such as Eugene O'Neill, Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams-that command the commercial market, leaving the rosy, chubby ones to go hang. Indeed. Author Herlihy (a TVeteran and co-author of last season's Broadway near miss, Blue Denim) might seem to have...