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Backyard Ark. There are other self-deluders: the producer whose vision of himself as a healer (dispensing Understanding through Adult Entertainment) sends "waterfalls of vanity pour[ing] through the man"; the elderly German immigrant who is so convinced that he will be the sole human survivor of nuclear attack that he builds an ark in his back yard and stocks it with animals. Author Marcus writes of them with a compassion untainted by sentimentality. Like a somewhat similar writer, Hollywood's late Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), he has a quick eye and a sharp ear. Nothing...
Loyal Disciple. The rebel radio voice frenziedly called for the "people" to pour into the streets "to destroy the remnants of the Kassem regime." Between exhortations, martial music filled the air, especially songs extolling Arab unity, and Alahu Akbar (God Is Great), a favorite hymn of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...stump speech need not make sense or state an argument lucidly. Such precision would detract from its real purpose--to excite the uneducated and impress upon them the identification of the speaker with "traditional values." The phrases must pour forth in magnificent thunder, roll like waves across the audience. Any attempt at argument might confuse the people--or if they understood it, enrage them. Unfortunately for the Honorable Governor, his audience at Sanders wanted clear argument. Three professors of law were on hand to debate substantive issues in intelligible terms. Ross gave them only patriotic sentiments, eloquent appeals to liberty...
Hosannahs ring through the land and words of praise pour forth from hundreds of typewriters. General MacArthur, the conquerer of Japan, is hailed as the new hero in the sports world for his efforts in bringing a cease-fire in the vitriolic war between the Amateur Athletic Union and the National Collegate Athletic Association. But we can not join in the celebration, for MacArthur's truce is a tenuous and fragile arrangement imposed by the powers and prestige of the Presidency of the United States. It solves none of the basic issues. In fact, it ignores some major considerations...
...International Telephone and Telegraph) will make the operations control system, and Svenska Flygmotor will build the souped-up JT8D engine under license from Pratt & Whitney. Slated to reach quantity production in 1969-70, Viggen is expected to keep 10,000 Swedish workmen busy for several years and to pour at least $600 million into the coffers of Swedish industry...