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What Thou Wilt. Apart from Mamma's quirks, Havelock's boyhood in Surrey was uneventful to the point of torpor. The boy was a bookworm; the man would be a cultural boa constrictor gorged with print. He had four sisters and an absentee sea-captain father; Ellis would be woman-handled most of his life. Papa interrupted his son's reading twice, once to take him around the world at the age of seven, and a second time at 16, to deposit him in Australia for a four-year stretch of school-mastering in the rough...
...hunner-heidit boa-constrictor snake...
Reveille is sounded before daybreak by transistor radios blasting out the morning news. At their irregular meals, the men eat rice or boiled starchy roots, dried codfish or bananas, sometimes boa constrictor or raccoon. They march, often dry and thirsty, through the hot midday. Castro moves along with them, joshing his men, examining their weapons, dressing-down laggards...
...were said against Christ and me," shouted Alziro Zarur on the air in Rio de Janeiro. For all the bad things a lot of people are saying about Zarur, the plump, balding, 43-year-old writer is running the fastest-growing new religious movement in Brazil. Its name is Boa Von-tade (Good Will), but it might as well be Bonanza. With the cruzeiros rolling in, the movement owns a Rio de Janeiro radio station, two magazines (total circ. 200,000), choice Rio real estate, and claim's more than a quarter million followers...
Nationally speaking, most farmers are not that foolhardy-if only because they may continue to need help to extricate themselves from the contradictory kind of help that now holds them like a solicitous boa constrictor. But city dwellers and farmers alike should realize that every clay the present program continues-to the tune of $5 billion a year-the situation is going to get worse...