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...good theatre, that has to be admitted, a night well spent. But just why, I can't figure out. If there's one thing that's the greatest bore in all the world of literature and drama, it's the theme of Good and Evil. Not that his is the theme of Billy Budd. But the theme of having to choose between evils and having to compromise what is clearly good, goes only one step beyond the old morality play in the subtlety of its thinking...
...Cunard liner Parthia began unloading her cargo. Out of the hold swung three new red double-decker London motorbuses; their sides were plastered with ads for English cigarettes, cars and marmalade: their Dunlop "tyres" were heavy-treaded. And No. 11, the leader of the big reds, still bore her route markings: "BUCKINGHAM PALACE RD. WESTMINSTER ABBEY, CHARING X (for Charing Cross), STRAND, ST. PAUL'S, LIVERPOOL STREET...
...regards as licentious customs. He has managed to suppress Seville's traditional church dancing at Christmas, ban movies accepted in the rest of Spain, and separate men & women at all religious gatherings. Says one critic of Segura: "A saint, had he been born in the 15th century, a bore in the 20th...
...time to issue a communiqué calling on "all Cubans to resist jointly with the President." At one point a car raced, guns firing, toward the palace gate; two guards were killed and seven wounded in an exchange of shots. Shortly afterwards, the gate opened and a limousine bore Prio away. On the dot of 9, armored cars followed by truckloads of infantrymen converged on the palace. White sheets fluttered from upstairs windows. For all practical purposes, the revolt was over...
...idyllic way of life, so do they cheapen the second half of Quivering Earth. Jesse and Keeta wind up in a boom town, and in final chapters as lurid and contrived as the first are lyrical and artless, Jesse finds his long-lost children and the woman who bore them, while Keeta gets herself just about the nicest man in Florida. Its last part reads as though some publishing expert finally explained to Author Russ what it takes to get a book published these days...