Word: aesop
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...President, they are like the animal in Aesop's Fables which had four legs on its back as well as four legs under its belly. When it got tired running on one set of legs, it simply turned over and ran on the other set; and you never could catch it. That is the perfectly parliamentary animal that these Senators...
...Natural History, where they would be mounted against a background of bleak tundra and labeled Lemmus norvegicus, the lemming. Stubby of tail, tawny of fur, blunt of snout, five inches long, lemmings are probably the only mice that ever excited awe in both sexes of human kind. Not Aesop's mouse who gnawed a lion free; not the three blind mice whom the farmer's spouse decaudated; not the clock-scaling mouse of Mother Goose nor Alice's dormouse nor the mouse that did not stir the night before Christmas nor even Ignatz Mouse* himself, have histories...
...PANCHATANTRA - Translated by Arthur W. Ryder - University of Chicago Press ($4). Wisdom from east of Aesop...
...book whose cover says that it was "illustrated by Arthur Rackham." In fact, that one phrase makes a great many people want certain books which they might otherwise never think to buy. This applies particularly to grown people, who have read Peter Pan and The Water Babies and Aesop's Fables and Hansel and Gretel years ago. A great many parents now buy Rackhamized editions of these books and pretend that they are doing it to please their children. It comes to that in the end, but actually the parents are getting fun themselves. This season there...
Truly, Representative Oldfield has daubed no pretty picture of G. 0. P. corruption and Senator Phipps has outdone Titian in his wealth of beautiful color. Yet 2,500 years ago Aesop said, "On top, looking down, the view is different...