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...play, since it has only a tenuous connection with the rest of the larger work and lasts two hours all by itself. It is a dream sequence set in hell, with four characters out of the legend made famous by Moliere and Mozart: Don Juan; Dona Ana, whose virtue he attempted to assault; the Commendatore, her father, slain by the archseducer; and the devil. In all of English drama, there is no more dazzlingly sustained discussion of ideas in dialogue. The words sing, the ideas go off like fireworks. It is like a great parliamentary debate in which the members...
...dust and would explode in flames, the fires often raging for days; in winter, rain came in torrents, churning the canyons into rivers of mud and washing whole hillsides into the sea. The threat of earthquake was constant and no one knew when the killer wind, the Santa Ana, would blow up over the hills, scraping the sky a raw blue, killing the mind, heating the blood...
...Already the U.S., the pioneer in such matters, is losing some of its traditional reverence for punctuality. America's airlines are beginning to follow the lead of the nation's railroads in operating on almost Oriental time schedules. Appliance repairmen are as devoted to the mañana principle as Mexican peons: department stores promise delivery of goods in weeks rather than days; the Post Office makes the Pony Express seem like the very model of rapid transit. The wait for a dial tone or an operator can be a foretaste of purgatory. For some parts of industry...
...beach at Corona del Mar, Calif., the Rev. Chuck Smith recently held another of the mass baptisms that have made his Calvary Chapel at Santa Ana famous. Under a setting sun, several hundred converts waded into the cold Pacific, patiently waiting their turn for the rite. On the cliffs above, hundreds more watched. Most...
...since wind-borne woes afflict millions of people on several continents. Italy suffers each year from the effects of the sirocco, France from the mistral, the Alpine regions from the foehn. Chinook winds bring a touch of seeming madness to the Rocky Mountain area each winter, and the Santa Ana wind makes thousands of Californians miserable. Sulman's experiments show that this misery may be lessened...