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...much more at home snarling at the backside of an Army Brass Hat than attempting to convey the tone of Perelman's brand of humor. The vicious, Stieg-like cartoons that made his fame in "War Is No Damned Good" have no place beside Perelman's cutting, though entireless harmless, wit. Some of the drawings are excellent, particularly a picture of two bloodthirsty children, but for the largest part they misfire and confuse the effect. These badly chosen illustrations cripple an already spotty collection of stories...
Some of the slum families were consumptive, some "harmless" (a euphemism for touched in the head) and some were looked down upon for reasons of caste: tinkers, or beggars, or those who live on charity, in the tenements (once fine 18th Century houses) of Napper Tandy Street. Twisty Nellie, a professional beggar who always promised a prayer to her benefactors, explained with spirit: "Sure how could I say a prayer for each one of them separate! I'd be at it all the day. I says a little prayer for the whole huroosh." Twisty Nellie's story, like...
Like other cold-wave preparations, Toni uses ammonium thioglycollate, which has been criticized by doctors as harmful if used in strong solution. Federal Food & Drug Administration spokesmen agree with Harris' statement that the Toni solution is weak enough to be harmless if directions are properly followed...
...strenuous rest: he was playing tennis, going for long walks, working on two compositions of his own, sitting up late alone evenings over a benedictine with mineral water in the hotel bar. Did he like Einem's opera? Klemperer was guarded. The music is agreeable, he said, but harmless and rather weak. Then he added: "The French Revolution was not light and agreeable but very serious-at least for those who were beheaded...
...host, viruses often commit suicide by killing the patient. But in the long run, says Burnet, the virus varieties with the best chance of survival are those that "live & let live." Many of the viruses that infect man have evolved into forms that produce low-grade infections, often so harmless that the host may not notice them. And a light infection may make human beings immune to attack by a more dangerous variety of the same virus...