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...mnemonic rhyme, e.g., one Snopes is called Eck, "the one with the broken neck.") Malignant, hated, despised, physically maladroit, the Snopeses prevail over better men by their rapacity and lack of pride or shame. They are like monkeys on the backs of men, and they move to "the blind glare of the blind money...
...occupied by post-war, or just post-nineteenth century, European intellectual degenerates. Needless to say, they fall short, and usually end up feeling what they imagine French poets feel or at least what philosophy students at the Sorbonne feel when they look at American tourists with a disdainful glare...
...Suspicious Patient. In the trial room, under the glare of movie cameras, the pale young woman told how, early in the fight, she had knocked out a Soviet tank with a hand grenade. At Domonkos hospital she and her ten codefendants, none of them over 30, had used the hospital Mimeograph machine to crank out a revolutionary newspaper called Truth. The editors were Gyula Obersovszky, onetime cultural editor of a provincial newspaper who had been expelled from the party for organizing a satirical cabaret show, and Jozsef Gali, ailing survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who had fallen into disgrace with...
Astronomers all over the world were readying their telescopes this week for Comet Arend-Roland. which is about to make an appearance from behind the glare of the sun. This week it should become visible just after sunset, low in the northwest. It will soon climb higher in the sky, but since it will be moving away from the sun, it will gradually lose brilliance, become invisible to the naked eye about June...
Spanish dancers strum and stamp indignantly, looking furious at each other but, as Signor Kaye points out, looking even more furious at the floor. They clatter and glare, brandishing boots, tight pants, short jackets, scowls, and women. They seem to be fairly intact imports of the gypsy dancers who currently perform for American tourists in Spain, and for all their energy they are a typically tired vaudeville...