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...both Marcus Aurelius and Jean-Paul Sartre is in his addiction to verbal color and sensuous imagery. The Horseman on the Roof is an orgy of symbolic corpses, stinks, carrion crows and flesh-eating nightingales, interspersed with involved philosophical breedings and brisked up with epigrams ("Cavalrymen like women to scream"; "I'm afraid of grocers when they have guns"). But. like most contemporary philosophical novelists, Giono makes no real effort to be clear or intelligible. It is hard to see how he expects to help .lift modern man out of his "cemetery above the ground" by dropping a load...
...show. Many of its phrases ("We just want the facts, ma'am") and its bashful but brave hero, Sergeant Joe Friday (played by Jack Webb), have passed into U.S. folklore. Across the country, children shout: "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday!" When asked what happened to Friday, they scream: "He's out on a case!" An orchestration of Dragnet's ponderous musical theme (DUM-da-da-DUM) became No. 7 on the Hit Parade, and the show's deadpan characters have been parodied on such bestselling records as St. George and the Dragonet and Little Blue...
...came through. A secretary said: "The president will talk to you now." I had just introduced myself when I heard a wild scream as the back door slammed. A second later some little cowboy came pounding up the stairs as fast as his short legs would carry him. With a sinking feeling, I realized that the chase was on. I clamped my hand over the phone to keep out the noise, and braced for the onslaught. I knew what was coming because I had been through this before. I stuck out a leg to bar the door and nearly lost...
...shot. Welsh Sergeant Major William Llewellyn, an eyewitness, testified that Captain Griffiths fired at one of two prisoners until the bullets "practically poured out of the man's stomach." And as he fired, said the sergeant, the captain shouted: "When the [Mau Mau] killed my horse, it screamed longer than you will scream...
...meet Gouzenko and his blonde wife Anna. Gouzenko. a slim, blond 34-year-old, was obviously upset over the furor, which he blamed on Canadian animosity to Senator Joseph McCarthy. His English fractured badly as he protested: "As soon as you touch McCarthy, it is getting everybody make scream...