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...place in which to brood about the ills of Appalachia, was suddenly declared a disaster area. A crew of workmen sprucing up the house lifted some floorboards, discovered that termites had chomped into the wooden beams and joists, and now the building is tilting and the stairways are slanting. Eaten out of house and home, Democratic Governor Hulett C. Smith, 46, evacuated his wife and five children to his own place in Beckley, 52 miles away, there to await the restoration and to ponder the imbalance of nature that produced overfed termites and underfed coal miners in his domain...
...last Emperor. In his years of exile, he had acquired an M.A. from Harvard, a Ph.D. from Princeton, an Austrian wife, and the respect of both his own people and many Americans. He had also learned the wisdom of the Korean proverb, "When whales fight, shrimp are eaten...
...less a statement than a cheerless obituary on the arts. "Religion and art are kept alive for sentimental reasons," brooded the Lutheran pastor's son; and the modern artistic movement "seems to me like a snake's skin full of ants. The snake is long since dead, eaten, deprived of his poison, but the skin is full of meddlesome life." Styling himself "one of the ants," Bergman concluded grimly: "The artist lives exactly like every other living creature that only exists for its own sake. This makes a rather numerous brotherhood living together egotistically on the hot, dirty...
...mother of Dante Alighieri, not long before his birth, had a dream in which her son, having eaten the berries of a laurel tree, grew up and was miraculously transformed into a shimmering peacock...
Since then he has gathered the largest such collection in the U.S. One figure, a beautifully preserved Peruvian drinking vessel, has a black-spotted face, black hands, a lip partially eaten away -symptoms of leprosy. Others lie on hospital beds, held down by restraining bonds as if they had a violent illness. Some seem to show the ravages of smallpox, cancer, dropsy, malnutrition, and give evidence of impressive achievements in techniques of amputation and other surgery a thousand years before Columbus. Pregnancy, an annual event, is portrayed as a happy occurrence, except for one rare sculpture of a dejected girl...