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Last week still another expedition, led by Oscar R. Houston of New York, returned to New Delhi after making a preliminary pass at the defiant peak. All earlier expeditions had attacked the north slope, which lies in Tibet. Houston's group decided to investigate the unexplored south slope, which lies in friendly and comparatively accessible Nepal. From a distance, the south side of the mountain looked considerably more favorable for climbing. The slope of the strata looked gentler, and there was a promising formation something like huge stairs. Even more important was the fact that the southern side...
...judge," Joe said, "you're just going to make him bitter. Just as bitter as I am. I was in jail. I know what they did to me there." There was a murmur in the packed courtroom. Joe looked defiant. "Sure I was in jail," he said. "I'm on the right side now, but-" he turned to face the jury, "I still have no respect for the law. How can I? Not when I see the cops cutting in on our crap games and card games. How do you expect us to have respect...
...sometimes loves words too well: The Lady shows a streak of the clever undergraduate, the babbling drunk; it plays practical jokes on the slopes of Parnassus. Like much poetry today, it turns abruptly colloquial, with calculated bathos; at other times it bellies out with defiant bombast...
...Washington, in San Juan, Government agents began a high-pressure investigation of the weird assassination plot. Government agents roused by teletype combed Manhattan's Spanish Harlem; they picked up a covey of Puerto Rican Nationalists, arrested the wives of the two gunmen. Both women were dry-eyed and defiant. Cried Rosa Collazo to her three daughters: "Hold up your heads. Don't be ashamed...
Inside this prosaic moral crust, the Anglo-Irish have always carried a defiant spirit. The high point of the Irish genius is reached in pure, disinterested destructiveness, and of that Shaw was the supreme intellectual embodiment in his time and the eager heir of Swift. It is important to note, however, that this destructiveness is mainly directed at sitting birds; the war of 1914 may have come at an awkward time in Shaw's life as an artist-he was 58-but once the world began to destroy itself, Shaw's destructiveness was outdone, he made crazy...