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...part, the spur is natural beauty: a town built around a tree-shaded oasis of ivied Georgian buildings on 552 acres. Alumnus Thomas Wolfe ('20) fondly described "Pulpit Hill" in Look Homeward, Angel as "a provincial outpost of great Rome: the wilderness crept up to it like a beast...
Self-Defense. Most bizarre of all is Amsterdam's "Night of the Pig." Stripped naked, 200 freshmen are jammed so closely into a room that they can scarcely move, and a small pig, bloated with laxatives, is tossed into their midst. The nauseated freshmen often trample the terrified beast to death in sheer self-defense...
...ruthless Turkish vizier of a Bosnian town. The vizier is seldom seen; instead his elephant takes his place in public, inspiring all the fear, doing all the damage that the vizier normally would. Andric's implied moral: when man is a tyrant, he may as well be a beast...
...Congress in recent years has made a record of progress and compassion to match this." But Kennedy must have been smiling through his tears as it slowly drew to a close. From an Administration viewpoint, the 87th in 1962 could only be considered an obstinate, balky, frequently frustrating beast. It gave Kennedy one great victory and a few smaller ones; it was marked by a great batch of half-loaf compromises; and it turned the Administration down cold on many of its key requests. The record...
...shooting eye sharpened up on duck, hare and pigeon, Britain's Prince Charles, 13, sighted in on a stag herded into close range by royal drovers, gently squeezed the trigger of his rifle and bagged the beast on the very first try. Jolly good, puffed proud Papa Philip. "Dreadful and nasty," said Mrs. Jean Pyke, a member of England's League Against Cruel Sports. ''I'm not surprised," she huffed. "They have been teaching the boy to do horrible things like this. Perhaps it comes from King Henry VIII...