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...most cases the prisoners lack adequate water for drinking and sanitation. The men get no medical attention, often sleep on wet dungeon floors, are lucky to get one meal a day. There seems to be little physical torture. Castro uses the Communists' more subtle psychological methods. Loudspeakers din the dictator's speeches over and over; uncooperative prisoners are plunged into ice water, shifted back and forth from brightly lit cells to black solitary confinement, questioned for endless hours. The VIPs (very important prisoners) are sometimes forced, Chinese-style, to dig their own graves before "firing squads...
...scene is accompanied by an din on rival Fibber McGee's , the percussion including drums, cymbals, xylophone, woodblocks, ratchet, and everything but the kitchen . But Amram's songs are fine, including one that he had turned into 9 three-voice canzonet...
...uncertainty over the tractor deal, there will be other "next times'' for John Kennedy to redeem his reputation as a political leader of potential greatness. Yet if the pattern persists, there will be a clear and present danger that President Kennedy, surrounded as he is by a din of conflicting advisory voices, may lose the confidence necessary to guide the nation through such coming struggles as Berlin...
...bleak Anatolian land where, each spring, it seems as if "a green rain has fallen," and by midsummer, the high plateaus are blue with thistles "rippling like the sea." There is also the settled villagers' nostalgia for a happier nomadic past, and repeated echoes of Nasr-ed-Din, the great comic hero whose wit and clownish wisdom have enlivened Turkish bazaars for 700 years. For the most part the author's philosophy seems to reflect Memed's own mood, benign in the midst of violence: "What good men there are in the world...
Land himself never got a college degree. While a freshman at Harvard, he got the inspiration for the first practical material to polarize light (a transparent plastic sheet), left school for three years to perfect it. When he returned. Harvard gave him a laboratory to work in, but restless Din Land passed up a degree, left school to make his polarizers and carry on research. His chief aim was to sell Detroit on a system of polarized auto windshields and headlight lenses that would take the glare out of night driving. The industry never accepted the idea, but Land...