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Congratulated: Prince Carl Gustaf of Sweden, who was making a royal try at standing upright for his birthday this week (see cut). Next in line for the throne after his grandfather (since his father's plane-crash death last January), he was just turning one, already had the situation firmly in hand...
Modern Book of Job. If The Castle is a modern Pilgrim's Progress, The Trial is a 20th Century Book of Job. Like Job, Joseph K. is a good and upright man, one who fears God and eschews evil. The Trial reports his oncreeping sense of guilt as a human being and the slow progress of that divine, intangible, but inexorable Justice to which he therefore feels that he must submit ("You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recognize it as such...
...front on the bandstand, his chunky bulk overlapping a fragile barroom chair, sat Sidney, his shiny golden saxophone in hand. Behind was Lloyd Phillips, grinning at an upright piano with its insides laid bare. A Neolithic-looking fellow named Freddie Moore stared glumly at his drums. Lloyd began patting it out and Freddie picked up the beat. Then old Sidney started. The other members of the trio had sense enough to stay out of Sidney...
...spite of these non-human characteristics, tarsiers are genuine primates. They can stand upright, like a man; their spinal columns, like man's, hang from the base of the skull. Instead of claws, they have long, spatulate fingers and tiny fingernails...
...shrewd paste-up of the clipping from Corwin's recording tape, connected by thin strips of narrative and commentary. In trying to give a serious, upright report, Corwin occasionally let his show lag, repeat itself, get incoherent. But at its many high points One World Flight had a sudden, heady power. The high points were all excerpts from Corwin's wonderfully perceptive, intimate sound track...