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...reliefs shown on the following pages portray the king in happier times. For the Assyrians, the hunt was an art in itself. The king's men would release a captive lion from a cage so that the king could first wound him with arrows. At last the monarch would step forward, his left arm wrapped in a heavy cloth (which the artist here omits so as not to disfigure the king). As the lion reared for the last time, the king would plunge his weapon through the great beast's body...
...valid reason why sexual intercourse should not be condoned among those sufficiently mature to engage in it without social consequences and without violating their own codes of morality and ethics. A mutually satisfactory sexual experience would eliminate the need for many hours of frustrating petting and lead to happier and longer lasting marriages among our young men and women...
Adams could remember a happier and a more literary time, when a handful of dedicated writers and editors, among them Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, George S. Kaufman, Ring Lardner, and Harold Ross of The New Yorker practiced their art with a lapidary's care. Clinging together for mutual support, they met weekdays as the Vicious Circle, a social group that lunched at the Algonquin Hotel and traded mots and puns, Saturday nights over the poker table of the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. Of them all, none set journalism's banner higher than the cigar-smoking, pool...
Brilliant Bully. By this editorial principle, Harris raised News circulation from 7,000 to 70,000. He gained social standing of a sort by marrying a wealthy widow, whom he made poorer but no happier. He stood for Parliament as a Conservative but ruined his chances by making a speech on the merits of mistresses for M.P.s. By borrowing right and left, Harris managed to buy a literary weekly, the Saturday Review, tossed out its old staff, and before long had a roster of contributors including Shaw, H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling...
Fate and temperament tangled Regler's life in the great philosophical confrontations of this century and their bloody outcome. Therefore, unlike the autobiographies of happier men, his depends on an understanding of the forces of which he made himself a servant. This understanding is often missing, or at best offers the cold comfort of wisdom after the event. As his first political experience-when he was a boy of five in his home town in the German Saarland-Regler recalls watching a policeman drag the local tailor by the ear up the town hall steps to face judgment...