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...white pigment into snowballs, and pitched them at the dripping oil, slapped on more paint with rapier-quick strokes, seized handfuls of paint tubes and leaped up and down the length of the battlefield. At the peak of his fury, he was ejecting tubes over his shoulder with the cyclic action of a machine gun, until he finally slowed down, devoted the last 20 minutes to adding only a touch of paint here and there. Total elapsed time: no minutes. Title: The Battle of Hakata (A.D. 1281, when the Japanese defeated Kublai Khan...
This year's Fall Reading Period will last only ten days, but harried students have only the Gregorian calendar to blame, Registrar Sargent Kennedy explained yesterday. It seems the length of the pre-exam respite undergoes cyclic variations, and the lean years have...
...biggest thing that ever happened to Novelist Arthur Koestler was becoming a Communist in 1931. The second biggest was his divorce from Communism in 1938. As with a lot of other ex-Communist writers, this cyclic experience is his whole stock in trade. From it came the one first-rate book of the dozen he has written, Darkness at Noon (TIME...
...with that insufficient realization their deepest humanity, along with their deepest art, slips away, much as the suicidal dagger slips from his hand and slants into the sea. In the terrific scene with the Queen, magnificent as he is, Olivier seems to stop at the brink of the cyclic, self-devouring, sadistic desperation which Shakespeare so clearly wrote into that page...
...Steppingstones. "If religion is a chariot, it looks as if the wheels on which it mounts towards Heaven may be the periodic downfalls of civilization on Earth. It looks as if the movement of civilization may be cyclic and recurrent, while the movement of religion may be on a single continuous upward line. The continuous upward movement of religion may be served and prompted by the cyclic movement of civilizations round the cycle of birth-death-birth...