Word: aesop
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...Aesop...
...behind the eight ball-and the situation finally becomes apparent to the rabbit-brained masses, then all of you prostitute lickspittle congenital stool pigeons who now so smugly fawn on those elements that represent established wealth, power and authority, may find yourselves in the position of the Bat in Aesop's fable: kicked out and repudiated by both sides. Perhaps you think you will not suffer much inconvenience, at that, since in addition to the reputed characteristics of the bat, you also possess the ability of the chameleon to change to the safe color upon short notice...
...this the acting was insufficient to carry the foreign language. One of the major players, an officer, was far more interested in the audience than in the play and turned constantly to face them. This kind of acting is typically high-schoolish. Bright spot in the evening was Aesop, of fable fame, who was played with some of the flavor of the great French comedian Raimu. Except for him the production was mediocre and seemed more a recitation that a serious attempt to capitalize on the analogies of the Cassandra story to the present day. Music for the performance...
...seven-headed monsters out of Revelations reared and pranced on many an ancient parchment. An old Flemish manuscript showed St. Margaret being disgorged Caesarean-wise by a repentant dragon who had swallowed her. A fox ogled out-of-reach grapes in the earliest extant copy of Aesop (circa 1000 A.D.). A 15th-Century German volume showed a woodcut of bewildered apes trying to light a fire with the aid of a glow worm (see cut), while birds jeered from a tree...
...skating rink, had never entered a race before, was so green he did not know what the checkered flag meant. But by steadily cruising around at 45 m.p.h.-in the last heat he was moving so slowly officials flagged him off the course-Greenhorn Allen, like the tortoise in Aesop's fable, won the hallowed Gold...