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...Harvest. In Oconomowoc, Wis., the Rev. William Clyde Donald sat comfortably with his congregation and listened to the sermon that he had providently recorded before laryngitis reduced him to whispers...
...aforementioned Chief Randall now arrived with a blue-coated assistant to reap his harvest of Bursar's cards. The 'Poon band and animals were dispatched via University Hall, Jim's Place, and the Coop...
Lest global optimists be taken in likewise, official sources last week were cautious about making predictions. "It is still too early for quantitative estimates," said a report from Washington, "but figures thus far received indicate that . . . the harvest in Europe during 1948 is likely to show an increase over that of the past two years." There were many problems of recovery, like Britain's dollar shortage and the gaping worldwide need for machinery and raw products, that a few days of fine weather could never solve. But if the winter had not insured Europe's recovery...
...Harvest of Years (by DeWitt Bodeen; produced by Arthur J. Beckhard) is about a farm family named Bromark. It is rather like, if rather worse than, a good many other plays about farm families. Much happens in it, though little seems to. Margareta's man throws her over for her sister Mellie. Chris's girl passes him up for his nephew Jules. People drink; people squabble; babies are born; mothers die in childbirth. But for all that (says the author at the end) the sky doesn't fall in; actually, the family doesn't even fall...
What's most incredible about Harvest of Years is not what happens, but how dull and derived it's all made to seem. Far from being lit up by any lightning flashes of imagination, the play catches hardly a fresh current of air. In how they think and feel-or how the author thinks they think and feels they feel-the Bromarks are not much more than walking bromides...