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Obviously, Roses has its thorns. Several jokes are self-consciously coarse (every Wellesley girl has her own way of announcing that she isn't a typical product of that place), and at times the author seems only to be getting some philosophy off her chest. But this is a young playwright's prerogative, and Miss Levine certainly doesn't abuse...
...letting go. But in this day of Mach 2 jets, not even a quick-acting ejection seat can dependably shoot the pilot out of a disabled plane and get him down safely. The wind blast at high speed tears at a pilot's face, smashes cruelly at his chest, twists his limbs into grotesque positions. If he is not battered to death, he is likely to freeze or die from lack of oxygen on the way down...
...padre from a flood. 'I love you!" she sighs, and flings her arms around him. Hot under his clerical collar, the priest squeaks: "Stop tantalizing me!" She sneaks into his room at night. "Father," she coos, "don't you need anything?" Pulling the covers over his chest, he wheezes in terror: "Get out!" Pretty soon she has him ogling her while a Mass is being read...
...tuberculous patients in 1951, now has only 21, is being turned mainly into a hospital and home for the aged. Famed Trudeau Sanatorium in New York's Adirondack Mountains, which treated 12,500 victims, has shut its doors to them and turned to research and other chest diseases. So have scores of other sanatoriums, and most of the "preventoriums" where TB-infected children were exposed to sun, air and snow...
...leader who eagerly went off to war with his green eyes gleaming malevolently, a stubby pipe clenched in his crooked mouth, and a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked into his duffel bag. The son of a wholesale grocery salesman, Chesty Puller-he always walked with his chest up and out, like a pouter pigeon on parade-spent only a year at Virginia Military Institute before quitting in 1918 to enlist in the Marines, only to be thwarted when World War I ended before he could kill any Germans. But Puller was soon blooded while fighting bandits...