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...awake they are far from silent. Sometimes they purr like large contented cats, and for special occasions they make a great variety of noises: grunts, grumbles, barks, yips, whines, hoots and roars, and com plicated sounds that the adventurous zoologist describes as "bo-bo-bo" and "ho-ho-ho-ha-ha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zoology: The Gentle Gorilla | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...Ha ha ha ha. Can you see me? Why can't I be seen in this muddy light of hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playwrights: Beckett & the Theater of the Concrete | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...Pension, Ah-ha!" On TV and at rallies, Caouette sticks to the stomach and the pocketbook. "When I'm up there," he says, "and I talk about the people in Montreal who had to dig in garbage pails for chicken last Christmas, I really feel their hunger. I feel their misery. I identify." He vaguely blames the "big interests," meaning the English-speaking people who rule Canada. "Have you ever heard of them lacking money to build a cannon? No. But family allowances, old-age pensions, money for the blind, ah-ha! That's another matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Demagogue from Quebec | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

There is nothing more humiliating than to step up to a golf ball, plant your feet (closed stance), set your hands (interlocking grip), wiggle your hips (pros call it "waggle"), swing mightily, and miss. When it happens to a pro athlete-ha! -there's one for the 19th hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One for the 19th | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

...course of action. Indeed, a character in One Day known only as K-123 listens to a defense of the film producer Eisenstein, makes a disparaging comment, and is told "But what other treatment of the subject would have been let through...?" K-123 replies in a rage "Ha! Let through, you say? Then don't call him a genius! Call him a today, say he carried out orders like a dog. A genius doesn't adapt his treatment to the taste of tyrants...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: The Politics of Dissent: Turmoil In Soviet Literature | 3/19/1963 | See Source »

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