Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hunger strike. The police released him, but too late. He trudged wearily back to the sadhu camp. The next day, while a score of fellow ascetics chanted prayers and slogans ("Victory unto the Lord who alone destroys all Evil"), Krishnanandji quietly died. His friends dug a grave, 6 ft. deep, in the sandy banks of the Jumna. There, in a sitting position, banked on all sides with cakes of salt, Krishnanandji was buried...
Sideline Seat. Nowadays, Columnist Rose is waist-deep in the fanciest possible metaphors. At its best, his talk combines the shriller styles of E. E. Cummings, a nightspot headwaiter, P. T. Barnum and a Polo Grounds peanut vendor. But he flavors this potpourri with a cynical wit. "What people don't seem to see," he complains, "is the Billy who sits on the sidelines and laughs at the game...
Marchand has found a 14th Century greystone house deep in the Chatillon forest north of Dijon. "It is better to lie down in the grass and regard nature intimately," he has decided, "than to spend your life in ceaseless discussions. To read the blossoms and other arrangements of nature, to touch the wonderful textures of things in the woods, with surfaces as exciting as a woman's skin-you can't find that in a cafe...
...about Fascism by presenting its villain as a reasonably sympathetic character. Dario's intrigues are necessary for his own survival. His megalomania is tempered by a sense of humor. His friendship for Correspondent Winner seems genuine. Winner, in turn, is both fascinated and repelled by Dario, whose skin-deep convictions are easily accommodated to the changing temperatures of Fascist politics...
Ordered: two U.S. elevators; by King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia; for his guestpalace in Jidda. Specifications: deep carpeting, satin-upholstered armchairs (in green & gold) with white satin arm rests. The King expects a visit from Egypt's Farouk...