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...read at two, was confident that his parents loved him, learned his first smatterings of science from an awkward young teacher named H. G. Wells.Though he had trouble with Greek, he breezed into spartan Westminster School, and in spite of the fact that there was not a single bath in the place ("It was enough that it was built by Christopher Wren"), he enjoyed himself thoroughly. He went on to Cambridge and to the fulfillment of his first literary ambition: the editorship of the undergraduate Granta...
...speeches are classics of hammy, outrageous irrelevance: "I remember some years ago when I proposed building the public baths along the Strandway, I was greeted with a chorus of recriminations from the opposition party. They had a terrifying vision: hundreds of the poor would now be able to take baths regularly! For their part, they want our poor to be like Frenchwomen. A Frenchwoman, as you know, takes a bath but twice in her life: once when she enters it, and once when she leaves it. In between times she uses talcum powder. It's a well-known fact...
...years. Apparently Mao believes his great purge of 1950-51, in which perhaps as many as 15 million died, so effectively destroyed the Chinese will to resist that he can now press on with complete collectivization of the land without having to kill more millions in a new blood bath...
...temperature was 60.8°. No one in medical history had ever survived a temperature as low as that (a Chicago woman lived after a 64.4° temperature in 1951). Doctors had little hope of saving the child, but they decided to try. She was placed in a warm-water bath and given regular cortisone injections. As the water's temperature was increased Vickie's body began to thaw. She moved slightly; then she cried. Three and a half hours after she was put in the water, Vickie was back in bed and able to swallow liquids. Mrs. Davis...
...meantime, Michales' teen-age nephew has killed Nuri Bey's nephew, and the Turko-Cretan blood bath has begun. Kazantzakis is not one to blink the horrors of war. Eyes are gouged, heads are lopped, women are raped, priests are lynched, villages are burned...