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...ouster. He has become a symbol separate from the standard moral and practical arguments for war. Unless the United States proves its seriousness, American diplomacy in support of peace in East Asia and the Middle East will never rise above appeasement. Like Herbert’s half-wild dogs, the dictators of the world need a demonstration of authority...
English ways. Aiken was always drawn home by the American idioms, the revivifying air, the "half-wild individualism," the "purity and singleness of purpose," the "entire naturalness...
...built Christian shrines of turf and mud to fend off pixies, pookas, hobgoblins and leprechauns. In 1588, a 1,000-ton Spanish galleon fleeing from the rout of the Spanish Armada piled up on the rocks of Great Blasket Island. Dozens of its crewmen struggled ashore, intermarried with the half-wild descendants of the "saints." From their union evolved the modern Blasket Islanders: tall, rawboned Celtic fishermen who speak little but Gaelic but have the jet black hair and dark eyes of Spaniards...
Globe-trotting Radio Commentator Lowell Thomas flew back home from Asia 15 Ibs. lighter than he went in. Though on crutches with the thigh fracture he suffered when thrown in Tibet by a half-wild pony, he could reminisce about his native diet of yak butter and yak meat cooked over fires of yak dung; his recorded broadcast from the forbidden Tibetan capital (carried to India by yak), and his gifts to Tibet's 15-year-old Dalai Lama (a gold & silver Siamese tiger skull, an alarm clock, a raincoat...
...Some big American packers have changed over entirely to horse meat and are working at full capacity. They've created enormous organizations to procure the horses, most of which come from western states where there are still big herds of half-wild horses. Once the owners got good prices for these horses, but since the coming of the motor car, horses have not been worth so much. Farmers now make good money on this horse meat by sending it to Europe . . . Unemployed cowboys hunt the horses, shoot them, and make big money too. In this way the Government angles...