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...hero is first seen as a hotheaded and rather surly 17-year-old who is already the favorite apprentice of the local master painter in Leyden and is conceited enough to blurt: "Either I am a second Michelangelo or I'm an ass!" What follows is the detailed story of his success (when he wins his first noble patron), his failure (when his celebrated Night Watch insults prominent members of the local militia, whose faces he partially hid in the background), and his Job-like sufferings. One by one, father, mother, crippled brother and spinster sister go to their...
Physical Effects. Doctors agree with Physicist Knudsen that noise is a hazard to physical health. The most obvious danger: deafness. "The Good Lord in his mercy provided the majestic elephant and the lowly ass with ear flaps that would at least partially close the ear canal," observes Knudsen. "But man, poor creature, was not so favored...
...hand, Franklin Cover's feeble old Silence complements splendidly John Heffernan's Shallow, garrulous and in his dotage. Heffernan, in the first part, brings his talent to the role of Francis, the waiter. Caught between two masters calling for him, he looked for all the world like the proverbial ass, stranded midway between two bales...
...Lumpa Church, the Church of God, the Bantu National Church-have broken away from the mission churches and are making considerable headway. One of the most successful new prophets is one Mister Wilson "Good," known as "Jesus"' to his followers, who wears a white robe and rides an ass instead of Rhodesia's customary bicycle...
...girls from Blay don with the air of an emperor accepting due homage. One moment Groarke is an intimate friend; the next, a malicious intriguer, and the next, a drunkard hitting out with anarchic fury. Just as baffling is upper-crust Palgrave Chamberlyn-Ffynch, who seems only a silly-ass clubman but whose character proves to have as many layers as an onion; hamhanded Jack Kerruish could not be anything more than an amiable athlete-or could he? Coves & Cobbles. Blaydon's five years in Dublin end in a vast betrayal. Without a word, devious Dymphna drops...