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Psychologists tell us that war, depression, crime, labor troubles, and race prejudice have their roots in mental processes. But they have been loath to apply their convictions to the correction of social error. Rather they have chosen to measure intelligence, the speed with which rats learn how to thread a maze in order to reach food and the like...
...bill at the University is routine stuff, the kind that any movie-goer has seen time and time again. A new idea has been stuck in here and there to cover over the thread-worn patterns, but it's a poor job of camouflaging two pictures that are nothing more than a waste of time...
...four emissaries. They drove aimlessly about the Italian countryside "on a sightseeing trip," wondering what to do with a 6 ft. by 24 ft. tapestry called Ocean Is Turbulent, which it had taken 4,060 Japanese craftsmen three years to make out of 2,450 bunches of gold thread and 85 shades of pure silk thread, and which the emissaries had expected to give Herr Hitler for his living room wall...
...Edward ("Eddie") Marsh knows as many such stories as there were incredible characters in preWar, bilingual British society. In A Number of People he strings them along on the bright, thin thread of his own life story with all the wit, charm, and intimate malice of a puckish British Proust. Unlike Proust, Marsh seldom sees through his irascible, Latinizing, fox-hunting dukes and musical, horsey, but absent-minded duchesses, although their snobbishness often makes him wince...
...plot is woven about the slim thread of the Yokel Boy's success in Hollywood and his sweetheart's -- Miss January -- failure therein. Thin though it is, the story might easily support a shorter play with the aid of its already first-rate score, its lavish settings, and its nifty costumes. By this time it's probably a good show...