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...Africa's blind, carnivorous driver ants move in endless, well-ordered columns flanked by their larger "officers," who lead and direct the march. Scouts in the van investigate likely targets and lead an "ant-sea" attack to devour everything living within reach. But for all their ferocity, the drivers die in direct sunlight. Forced to cross bare ground on a bright day, they quickly throw up earth to form a covered archway as protection, and march...
...made that exactly the reverse is true. Colette was revered as a queen of French literature not because her kingdom was boundless, but because it was strictly limited and superbly governed. The subjects of Queen Colette have no souls, no morals, no politics, no intellects. Their aim is to devour the maximum of sensuous pleasure at the price of a pain that they often find most enjoyable, e.g., Chéri's heroine gets a big kick out of her lover's passion for hocking her jewelry...
...wolf boy' " with clawlike hands and a double set of upper-jaw incisors "who walks on all fours, wolfs down raw meat and laps water like an animal . . . There was some speculation the boy might have been reared by jackals, but [the attending doctor] said jackals often devour their young, while she-wolves are known to have strong maternal instincts." In the hospital at Lucknow, India, where the boy was being treated, reported A.P., the wolf boy "cringes from the light . . . snarls," and has "tried to bite attendants." The wire services and the dozens of papers that...
...virtues have it all over drawing-room talents. Most of all, Not as a Stranger is a heartwarming though crudely repetitive story of a passionate idealist whose passion is medicine. No novel ever written has contained more authentic, hard-won facts about doctors, patients, hospitals. Hypochondriacs will devour it; few of those who are not will consider its nearly 1,000 pages a waste if they stick it out. With all its literary embarrassments, Not as a Stranger speaks up for life as few recent literary successes have done...
...South politicians such as "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, governor and later Senator from South Carolina, who publicly proclaimed that the Negro was biologically inferior to the white man. When "inoculated with the virus of equality," said Tillman, the Negro became "a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour...