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...through, the Enquirer's 800 employees will move into the Times-Star's modern, 15-story tower and use the same composing room and presses. Nevertheless, Hulbert Taft promised that the venerable Enquirer will retain its identity and also the same management, staff and makeup, including its quaint, archaic headlines. Sample...
...mild modern stereotype of a Quaker would surprise the fiery Friends of George Fox's 17th Century as much as today's average idea of a Christian would surprise the dangerously living followers of St. Paul. The early Quakers were not quaint and softspoken; they were religious enthusiasts of passion and vociferous outrage who were not afraid to raise their voices against a minister in his pulpit or a slave dealer at his market...
...Sica's fairy tale, written by Cesare (Shoeshine, The Bicycle Thief) Zavattini, is the story of Toto the Good (Francesco Golisano), a newborn baby found in a cabbage patch by a quaint, gentle old lady. Toto is reared in an orphanage after her death and graduates one day into the streets of Milan, a youth of 20, utterly naive, trusting and goodhearted...
Otherwise, the volume is perfect. Kelly drew some new portraits of his pet 'possum for the covers and title pages that picture his quaint whimsical attitude toward life...
...Guajira Peninsula, at the northernmost tip of South America, live 18,000 nomadic Indians who roam a sandy waste (part Colombian territory, part Venezuelan) mounted on horses or old Ford trucks. Anthropologists' accounts of the Guajiro Indians read like tongue-in-cheek parodies of all sober treatises on Quaint Customs of the Aborigines. Item: a thief hurt while trespassing on the property of an intended victim can demand, and get, compensation from the property owner. Item: suicide is a means of vengeance; the person who kills himself believes that he will suffer less than those who goaded him into...