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This Man's Town depicts an unhappy New Year's eve as manifested near a lunch wagon in a red-light district. The author, Willard Robertson, appears as a good-natured, dirty-aproned counterman who shoves the mustard pot with unerring accuracy and can never remember in what town the significant episodes of his life occurred. Troubled by rumors that his girl is living loosely, he remarks: "I been layin' awake for weeks hopin' she'd say something in her sleep." During the evening a policeman is riddled with a machine gun at the wagon...
...custom to hold an election of Deputies between the fixed periods of four years. "Let the politicians patch things up as best they can," is Jean Frenchman's thrifty motto, for an election is costly, and the French as a race would always rather mend a broken flower pot with infinite trouble than buy a new one for 50 centimes...
...Cossacks whom the Tsar sent to drive the people of Tersk out of their village. The situation is presented less consciously and vehemently than in The New Babylon (see above). Good shots: the illiterate Chechens signing a document by pressing it with thumbs first rubbed on a sooty pot; a crowd of people on a mountain road; villagers squatting with bowed heads in the road as they await a charge by cavalry...
...fester of social and political unrest. José de Creeft, sculptor, is no exception. Born in Guadalajara, he studied in Barcelona and has been an art-rebel since his early days. He shocked and amused Paris with his many sculptural stunts: a picador astride, concocted with stovepipes, pot scrapers, an egg beater, some fuzz and the lid of a pan; a statue of a cat and a woman made into one (called La Femme-Chatte), and a wire ostrich. His taille directe method (the cutting of a sculpture directly from its material without rehearsals in clay- "the releasing...
...most interesting laboratory courses open to the undergraduates, and if one is at all fascinated with the complexities of organic chemistry it should prove a very worth while course. It is fully as interesting as Chemistry 2 is dull, because here you are dealing with the things themselves, and pot merely with their names...