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...which Dylan (pronounced Dillon) Thomas celebrates God and man is not always easy to grasp. He thinks in soliloquy, like Hamlet, perhaps in the hope that the modern world, which seldom hears the modern poet, may sometimes overhear him. Unlike many modern poets, Thomas has never been bitten with the "social consciousness" bug; again like Hamlet, he wrestles with the dilemma of self-consciousness...
...music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell. And now you mustn't stroke anyone's head-you might get your hand bitten off. You have to hit them on the head, without any mercy, although our ideal is not to use force against anyone. H'm, h'm, our duty is infernally hard...
...took her under surveillance when Ike was nominated, will be omnipresent-they will lurk in the next room even if she is lunching at the home of an old friend. She will seldom be out of the news. If she buys a dog, spanks one of her grandchildren, is bitten by a snake or develops a taste for yoghurt, the world will want to chatter about...
...years he searched, visiting savage coasts and coral islands. He almost lost an arm to a loft. shark, was nipped by a poisonous fish. "I was stung, stabbed and bitten," he recalls, "by fishes, fishes, and still more fishes." But never a coelacanth rose to bite him with its catlike teeth...
...Zouaves was interrupted by the rumble of trucks filled with Berber troops and the quick march of the blue-black Senegalese riflemen. They were met by a mob of some 10,000 screaming Arabs armed with sticks, stones and anything else that could pierce or bludgeon. Hard-bitten French Commandant Louis Durand three times commanded the mob to halt. As the Arabs continued to surge forward, Durand gave the order; the crack of rifle fire split the air and an estimated 40 Arabs dropped. The rest dispersed to carry on the fight from rooftops and doorways. French observation planes circled...