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Alas, the geese were very fat, for many a princeling came seeking the hand of the Princess Saralinda, the winsome ward of the dastard Duke, and all of them met a dire fate-all, that is, except Prince Zorn of Zorna...
...clock and of wanting to make it run till June, he stages a double retreat from life into show business, filling out the play with colorful backstage detail, phonying it up with facile on-stage emotions. His talent is-flawing again, but from a faucet in dire need of a filter, 'it is depressing to find so much shoddy in a play that can here & there merge deep compassion with burning anger...
...Dresden last week a youthful hot combo was interrupted in mid-rehearsal and threatened with dire consequences if caught playing Western jazz a second time. In Cottbus, Communist police confiscated a stack of Western dance records and sent their owners to jail for two days. But the East German who was called upon to pay the piper most heavily for not calling the Communist tune was Egon Sander of Pirna. Last week Egon was dragged off the floor of a Pirna restaurant, sentenced to two years in prison for dancing the samba. The dance, said his Communist judges, was "endangering...
After the separate Air Force was created and the three services merged in a Department of Defense, Radford remained one of the diehards. In integration he saw dire possibilities of damage to the Navy, its air arms and to the Marine Corps. He was sent out of Washington to command a peacetime task fleet, brought back again as Vice Chief of Naval Operations (as a vice admiral), sent out again in the spring of 1949, as a full admiral, to be CINCPAC...
Hubbard's most striking departure from older psychoanalytical schools is his insistence that protoplasm begins to record engrams immediately after conception. He sees the period of gestation as one of dire discomforts and great perils. The most important of all engrams, which he dubs "basic-basic," is the first one received after conception-perhaps during the mother's examination by her doctor, or in some mishap before her pregnancy is known...