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...some fun." After that, things calmed down a bit, as contestants tripped on the tricky and the tough ones: remuneration, victuals, catarrh, integrity, censure, subtle, vaudeville, ukulele, bilious, ecstasy, granary, paraphernalia, hybrid, corollary, auricle, pugnacity, awry, diocese, quay, colossal, tutelage, idiosyncrasy, fuchsia, corroboration, rhinoceros, dysentery, desiccate, scintillate, proselyting, bellicose, knave, sarsaparilla...
...King & Knave. It tries to appease the rebels and agrees with them in principle. "We can only be grateful if America is prepared in any way to make it easier for us to defend our security. But no one has tried harder than the Government to reduce our dependence. . . . The idea that we are somehow bound politically to follow American policy is . . . false...
Britain, says Cards on the Table, will not take sides in a line-up for the next world war, will cooperate with the U.S. only on specific issues "where there is a clear common interest." Winston Churchill, obviously the Knave of Clubs in the deck, "wants a permanent alliance with America against what he sees as a permanent political danger." Ernie Bevin, the King of Hearts, "wants as close an association with Russia as we have now with America...
...however, was in the individual performances. The general run achieved a wooden mediocrity which broke the back of any attempt to maintain the professional illusion which has characterized recent HDC and other local efforts. Others were more objectionable: Walter Frank completely misplayed Joxer, making him a large and boisterous knave instead of the small, whining rogue he is; and Robert Lubchansky was oily to an unpleasant extreme as Bentham...
...fool or a knave at the driving wheel of a motor vehicle is far more dangerous both to the public and to himself than a fool or a knave on the driver's seat of a hay wagon. Hence, on this latter-day road, the crucial challenge is no longer technological but psychological. . . . The old challenge of physical distance has been transmuted into a new challenge of human relations between drivers who have learned how to 'annihilate distance' and have thereby put themselves in constant danger of annihilating one another...