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...area, besieged it round the clock. The treasure hunters climbed trees, trampled new lawns, rummaged through garbage cans, shined flashlights into bedrooms, invaded homes to use toilets, even scaled a householder's roof to case his chimney. Moaned one property owner: "It was like being in an African ant pile. There were so many of them it wouldn't have done any good to kill one." Other get-rich-quick hopefuls delved beneath the gravestones in a local cemetery, pulled up surveyors' stakes in a newly laid-out subdivision...
...public in a glorious album of absurdities. He has been a larcenous bank clerk, a commuting bigamist, a middle-aged suffragette, a bootleg genius, a buck-toothed fiend, a garden editor who liked vegetables better than people, the contents of a cannibal stew, a family of eight, an intellectual ant...
...considerable pleasure in hurling critical thunderbolts at our culture, or lack of it. Most of them are aimed at the so-called mass culture, the conformity and the averageness of American life. Eg: Rene MacColl, embarking for London shouts "Home soon! I am hopping away from this great, swarming ant heap of a country..." And here, in the ant heap, David Riesman states, "One thinks of ribbon-like roadside slums...man-made rural ugliness.... and the endless aesthetic atrocity of the cities." There is undeniably something...
...major legislation-but the House of Representatives had already worked its budget-whacking way well past the $1 billion mark (about half of which, admittedly, would have to be restored with supplemental appropriations before the end of the fiscal year). From extermination of the South's fire-ant plague to slum clearance, all legislative eggs were candled by one light: What will it cost...
Expansion of existing institutions was not enough, Bender asserted. "The thought of the ant hill university with its hordes of students and its army of bureaucrats, its loudspeakers and its I.B.M. machines fills me with horror," he said...