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...goodness, do you realize what you have done? Don't you know by now that the mere mention of Kinsey's name calls for a flock of prejudiced letters? [TIME, Feb. 22]. And what of those poor parents who are concerned with bringing up their children as average, normal, well-adjusted citizens (heaven forbid!); think of the worries you have heaped upon them! It seems to be the general trend, even for laymen, to call all energy nothing but sexual drive-and if that is true, I say let us have a few more frustrated people...
...sole reason for the Communist onslaught appeared to be the prestige of Thanthuong's Dominican priest, Father Barthelemy An. He had made Thanthuong a peaceful refuge. Father An once gave his flock 300 borrowed French rifles to defend themselves from the Communists. Father An was among the dead...
...next day it turned out that indestructible Poppa was still alive. In its forced landing (made to avoid a flock of huge jungle birds), the Cessna had damaged nothing but its undercarriage. Its three occupants clambered down cliffs to the crocodile-infested river, while clouds of mosquitoes whined about them. As night fell, they built a fire to keep curious elephants at bay. One elephant, Hemingway said later, "was silhouetted twelve paces away, listening to my wife snore." When he woke her, she said, " 'I never snore. You've got a fixation about "it.' I said...
...Hemingway said the blue and white Cessna crashed when it dived at low altitude to avoid hitting a flock of flying ibises--jungle birds big enough to smash the canopy of the plane. . ." (N.Y. Times, January 26, 1953, page 25, section...
...creatures swooped down on the hedge-hopping Cessna, forcing it to crash-land on an elephant track, or else be demolished by the flock. Both pilot and wife noted that the Ibis leader seemed especially trained for his performance, and speculated that he may have been sent out by some group intent on ridding the world of perhaps the Twentieth Century's most talented author...