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...Straits, along the border of Blarney. It is peopled with grotesques, inanimate as well as animate: crumbling mansions where the plumbing has a will-but not a constitution -of iron; a Hereford bull that for reasons of its own sits down in a kitchen, blockading the stove; an alcoholic postman who carelessly stuffs mail into a tree stump, then thinks to bring the practice into line with regulations by carving the words post box in the bark...
Captain Cat lives in a dual world of actual sounds and nostalgic dreams. As he follows Willy Nilly, the Postman (Paul Eisenberg) down the street with his ears, he experiences the life of the village and its inhabitants through his sense of small and sound. The colorful cast of characters often leaves the immediate sensory present, however, intermittently to revisit the past: for Thomas, although professing to paint merely one tantalizing and cyclical day in the life of the village, pulls his audience from one today to many yesterday through his narrators' reiterated incantation that "time passes...
What he found was a relatively close-knit community, a "good block" with "good buildings" housing "good people." Yet the homiest of the five articles to run so far-long treatises on the comity of the postman and the everyday frustrations of shopping-fail to dispel the notion that New York neighborliness is little more than a tenuous alliance. In fact, Corry's best piece so far lists the precautions taken by residents of the "good block" to keep from being robbed, raped, beaten or killed: "George Bassat keeps a club next to his front door. Mr. Brouwer...
...demonstrate more clearly than ever that the U.S. is determined not to accept aggression without reply." Ambassador Foy Kohler carried the message to Deputy Foreign Minister Nikolai Firyubin with a request that the Soviets relay it to the North Vietnamese ambassador. Firyubin's reply: "I am not a postman." MCNAMARA AND BOMBING. Secretary of Defense McNamara quickly became disillusioned with the bombing strategy he had recommended to President Johnson and spent his last 16 months in office locked in bitter debate with military leaders in the Pentagon. He suggested contingency plans for sustained bombing of the North in March...
...been suggested that it will be a great convenience to the students to have letter-boxes placed in each entry at their own expense, so that the postman can collect our letters as he goes on each of his rounds. Perhaps the number of boxes that would be necessary is an objection to this plan; but it would be a great advantage to have some place for mailing letters that would be more convenient than the Post-Office. Why should not an official letter-box be placed under the bulletin-board that has been raised for the weather-reports? Some...