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Juan is even more Shavian about woman than about man. He insists that he kept running off not through boredom after possessing them, but through fear of being possessed. Shaw's Juan is nine parts Puritan to one part libertine, and for him Heaven means hard work, not golden...
Don't think that this two-week layoff has been a blissful, practice-filled hiatus for Henry Lamar. The Yardlings have probably seen less action during this period than at any other time of the year.
Some sectors of the web stand out with special pathos or splendor: aged members of the Home Guard clutching club and pike; the tormented heroes of the bomb-disposal squads, whose faces "seemed different from those of ordinary men . . . gaunt. . . haggard . . . bluish . . . bright, gleaming eyes and exceptional compression of the...
In his long and losing war with machines, modern man has devoted almost as much energy to damning newfangled contraptions as he has to inventing them. He has cursed the power loom, the steam locomotive, the Welsbach mantle, the airplane and the electric shaver with a vehemence calculated to deliver...
"Observe," said Ruskin, "that what this impressionable person does draw she draws as like as she can. . . . You can't every day, for instance, see a baby thrown into a basket of roses; but when she has once pleasantly invented that arrangement for you, baby is as like baby...