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Will the Careys get the boot when their mysterious absentee landlord discovers that they have been living rent-free in his house all summer? Such a turn of events is unthinkable, and sure enough, nobody thinks of it. Instead, everybody has wholesome fun. Sam, the comic sheep dog, scares prissy Cousin Julia (Deborah Walley) into a conniption; Little Brother cons the barber into shearing off his Buster Brown bangs; there is a lemonade party and a punch-and-pumpkin Halloween housewarming. Burl Ives pipes The Ugly Bug Ball, and a peaceable bestiary of beavers, owls, foxes, deer, spiders, crickets...
Although he is now a Roman Catholic priest in Paris, Lepp has the credentials to explain the mind of the atheist: he was one himself for 27 years, and a Communist to boot. Born into a family of freethinkers, he joined the party at the age of 15 and unquestioningly assumed that religion was an enemy of social progress: "Since all my teachers were professed atheists, I considered myself to be one also." So long as he was striving for a Communist future, Lepp says, "I felt no need of God." He acquired degrees in medicine and philosophy (and even...
Across no man's land comes the sound of Silent Night-"Stille nacht, heilige nacht. . ." The Germans toss over a boot containing a sprig of evergreen tied with red ribbon, a package of cigarettes, a piece of sausage. The Tommies toss back a Christmas pudding. Then, as the Tommies grab for their rifles, German soldiers appear at the back of the stage. They have a bottle of schnapps. The rifles go down. Everybody drinks. Up in the light bulbs it says: ONE HALF OF BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE WIPED...
...Return; he does not brood on the past or hope for the future. His fellow emigres regard him as "a useless handicraftsman," a "trickster" and an "arabesquer," and he in turn regards the typical Russian emigre intellectual as "blind like Milton, deaf like Beethoven, and a blockhead to boot...
...Cuba, did Fidel look interested. U.S. Ambassador Foy D. Kohler missed the fun, remaining at home in Spaso House to watch on television; he was boycotting the event to make sure he would not have to listen to an anti-American diatribe-and in Castro's presence, to boot. As things turned out, Kohler had nothing to fear. Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky's "order-of-the-day" speech contained all the familiar taunts and accusations against "imperialists," but it was nothing to get terribly excited about. And Fidel himself had nothing...