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...Unhappy, eagle wings and beak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homesick for Death | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...eaten by that beak and become part of him, to share those wings and those eyes-What a sublime end of one's body, what an enskyment; what a life after death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homesick for Death | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...beauty, you would not have looked twice. What she had to advantage was hair, wondrous chestnut, something like an October leaf in the northern climate, yet when she faced you there was only a long face, oily, with eyes two small periwinkles, something like a parrot's beak for nose, and that huge ridiculous chin copied from a wrestler's photograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Self-Deluders | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

...verge of becoming a nuclear power. By think there will be either new nuclear powers demanding or resisting invitations to the conference. France is only the first second-class power to realize that the nuclear weapon is the ultimate equalizer, and to adopt this dangerous route beak to the summit...

Author: By Richard B. Ruge, | Title: Gerard Piel: 'The Fork in the Road' | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

About the only person who did not offer an opinion was the Dicky-bird himself. He was on holiday with his princess, spreading his feathers to the Antigua sun, waiting to shoulder his new duties next month. And keeping his beak shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dicky-bird's Flight | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

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