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...bulging out of its head; grave, long-fingered, acrobatic monkeys; a Dartmoor pony standing in ferns that look like fossil prints; an old Zebu bull with mountainous shoulders; a leopard which is almost pure draftsmanship without substance. A formalized antelope reminded visitors of the wall drawings of Cro-Magnon cave men. A group of storks and herons seemed to be millions of years old, to show atavistic traces of reptilian ancestry...
...three of the children started running toward him. He herded them out into the open fast. Out in the schoolyard, Don Nelson saw the ground littered with bodies. Two men ran up to him and they crawled back into the ruins together. A heavy bookcase had formed a cave from under which ten pale children scampered. "There was so much confusion," said Don Nelson, "I can't remember much about the screaming...
...only have a head start as far as resources are concerned, but also have the stamina that will count as the marathon progresses. Italy and Germany have the unpleasant choice of falling behind or of exerting such efforts that will cause their already overburdened social and economic systems to cave...
...yarn, but symbolically true: "The realities that are overwhelming him are so monstrous and frightful that he has to transform them into this fairy tale. . . ." The doctor alarms George even further by shouting that Finchatton is right: Cainsmarsh is everywhere, and the spirit of the animal cave man is still poisoning the air with fear. "What I tell you is the monstrous reality. The brute has been marking time and dreaming of a progress it has failed to make. Any archeologist will tell you as much; modern man has no better skull, no better brain. Just a cave man, more...
...under the direction of Dr. Hetty Goldman, the Museum's Excavator in Greek Lands. Another expedition is now in the field in India, Ceylon, and Afghanistan, under Dr. Benjamin Rowland, Jr. His purpose is to photograph in color and to publish the outstanding wall paintings in the cave chapels, an original undertaking whose results will be eagerly awaited by all Orientalists...