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...context. Revolving around a yearling Congressman who identifies himself with his namesake, the play attempts to inject an Old World perspective into the hurly-burly of politics; but long before the end, the author drops his classic approach and blunts his touch on the smooth sides of several dozen random cliches. Like the mantelpiece sculpture of Socrates that turns up in the second act, the result is a hollow bust...
...every present-day neurotic whose longing for escape leads to lost weekends and the psychiatric ward. Baudelaire's own lost weekend lasted more than 20 years, but instead of cracking up, he never gave way finally to despair. In fact, he became its almost contemptuous familiar. The random reflections of his Intimate Journals reveal more than the great lyric poet of Fleurs du Mal (1857); they show the nature of the man who somehow dodged the inexorable shooting-down of the fugitive. The Intimate Journals, self-pitying and frequently obscure as they are, are nonetheless a document...
...first week Billy sounded like a not-too-assured mixture of Walter Winchell and the late Alexander Woollcott. He let his listeners in on his random thoughts, a bit of philosophy, some gossip. He did a little crusading for higher salaries for teachers. He told a yarn about World's Fair days, when J. Edgar Hoover put the finger on a gangster who was bothering Billy. He bemoaned all the big-time stars that he has been dope enough to pass...
...their trouble, doctors now use the word psychosomatic (from the Greek psyche, mind, and soma, body). Last week a top-rank woman practitioner of psychosomatic medicine, Dr. Flanders Dunbar of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, published a fascinating book on the subject (Mind and Body; Random House...
...head of the line, the secretary said, "I'm sorry. Humanities 18 is closed. There's no point in even putting you on the waiting list." The other fellow's jaw dropped. "What can I take now?" he asked. Vag smiled, and opened his catalogue at random. "Here's a terrific course in the history of the drama that I think I'll take," he replied. "You read 75 plays, but it's worth your while." The fellow walked away without a word, and Vag, grinning broadly, leafed through the little book until he came to geography. "The topography...