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Blindman's Buff. Man has always held the night in terror?from Homer's day, when the warriors in the Iliad besought Zeus to "deliver from darkness the sons of the Achaeans," through Biblical times, when God's direst threat was to "set darkness upon thy land," right down to the present, on those rare occasions when he encounters...
When 40 years of liquor rationing* ended in 1955, most Swedes laid in ample reserve stocks, vowing never to be caught short again. But there they were, with cupboards bare last week, amidst the direst shortage since the height of government controls...
Colonel Blimp's direst argument against joining the Common Market is that effete Continental customs will sap the British Way of Life. "Even before her entry," the Paris daily Le Monde observed last week, "Britain is throwing off certain of the original traits to which she has always been so attached. She speaks of adopting the metric system. Automobiles there now have bright colors; high buildings are going up in the middle of London, and worthy gentlemen no longer fear to walk about bareheaded." However, pointed out Le Monde: "The osmosis is not all in one direction. The whole...
...World of Strangers, by Nadine Gordimer. South Africa's finest novelist writes of her homeland's direst hour...
...headed for the U.S. Since 1945, he has been teaching at Portland's Presbyterian Lewis and Clark College, where as many as 70 students brave his celebrated sternness to play in his student orchestra. One reason: beneath the rigorous vigor lies a puckish streak that relieves the direst stress. For example, Sirpo was once felled on the podium by a minor stroke, and somebody shrieked that he had been shot. As the cops arrived, he regained his speech and muttered solemnly: "My wife did it." On another occasion, the Sirpos had just moved into a house that was supposed...