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...were reasonably justified, they acted rationally in accordance with their freely-expressed and irreproachable aim, namely, to make a buck. At any rate, the public was not missing out seriously, for the twelve cuts, amounting to four minutes running time, were neither crucial nor titillating--they apparently represented a random selection from the film's footage. From the Legion of Decency's point of view, it was simply doing a job, which was legal, with the most effective means at hand, which also were legal...
...BLESSING (305 pp.]-Nancy Mitford-Random House...
Questionnaires were sent to every fifth upperclassman. The starting number was chosen by opening a book at random, using the last digit of the page number to determine the polling...
...disorganized yet coherent recollections of a man who feels that, "As a writer, I have been a physician, and as a physician a writer." To a reader as innocent as I am of substantial knowledge of American poetry, Williams' remembrance of his early years has more appeal. It contains random remarks of his early home, school, early friends, his college days and some of the friends he made there such as Ezra Pound and Marianne Moore, his travels in Europe and then some more about his literary friends...
...Random Harvest. In Denver, cops made the pinch on general principles when they spotted a car containing: 1) James Yohe, 2) Charles Crider, 3) two women, 4) a toy wagon, 5) a toy tractor, 6) a wooden horse, 7) a white rabbit, 8) a quart of whisky, 9) a red hen, 10) a garbage can, 11) a black hen, 12) a gamecock, 13) a deodorized skunk...