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...latter-day Huxley novels, words speak louder than actions. It is no surprise, therefore, to find that his first novel in seven years is an urbane little lecture on grace and predestination, with witty asides on life, letters and the pursuit of happiness. The lecture notes rather dwarf a spindly triangle story of love and adultery in the high-I.Q. bracket...
Allow me to congratulate you for your brilliant article on Belgian Congo. A few years ago I was lucky enough to go and work and get acquainted in the "timeless jungle" with those "dwarf antelope," and in "Black and White Leo" with those "highly trained business executives...
Tito's Appearance: "He has a flabby, effeminate face, a mask which conceals the wicked, cunning and egotistical soul of an artful sneak . . . A bloodthirsty dwarf and illiterate petit-bourgeois who dons golden uniforms and is suffering from megalomania" (Literary Gazette, Moscow...
...kind of earth-mother goddess, carries a torch for her lost love, but Hagen, the One-eyed, who believes the pagan gods have been flouted by this turn of affairs, pries from Kriemhild the secret of Siegfried's sole weakness. In slaying the sacred dragon of the Dwarf people, Siegfried has been drenched in the monster's en chanted blood except for one spot where a leaf stuck to his back. Hagen hurls his long spear through the mortal skin, Brunhilde impales herself on Siegfried's grave, and Kriemhild swears undying revenge. She gets it by marrying...
...that last week when reporters first visited the village on Yucca Flat built to test the effect of an atomic blast. The reporters, who had waited 13 days for the explosion and another day to see what had happened, were primed to be shocked. They had seen the fireball dwarf the tiny village on the desert (three houses can be seen in the lower right corner of the picture above ), watched a train of dust follow the shock wave across the desert, felt its punch eight miles away...