Word: heaping
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...even the Terror could sweep the men, ideas and institutions of the French past into a forgotten dust heap. The French Revolution, unlike the American and Russian Revolutions, was not left to work out its destiny in remote solitude. France's pre-Revolutionary success had made it the center of the world. What happened at the center concerned all. Within the souls of Frenchmen, and outside the borders of their country, the counter-revolutionary pressures mounted. The tumult of the irresistible crunching against the immovable made constructive thought impossible...
...Guest explains his philosophy by saying that "everything I ve ever wanted has been given me-so naturally I'm optimistic." With the help of his brother, a printer, Guest personally published his first three books of verse Encouraged by their modest sale, he submitted the fourth, A Heap o' Livin', to both Harper and Doubleday. Both turned it down and the book was eventually brought out by Reilly & Lee, the Chicago house that has issued all 22 of his subsequent books. A Heap o' Livin' sold more than half a million copies...
...Royal Family. Atop this heap of corruption sits the royal family. Every member of it is well and painfully aware of the fact that the dynasty was founded only 25 years ago. Iranian peasants are attached to the idea of monarchy, but even they know that the founder of the present line, Reza Shah Pahlevi, was a sergeant in the Iranian army, a "strong man" raised to power by British influence after World War I, broken and exiled by the British in World...
...Walt Whitman, education was more than "a heap of disjointed facts ... a proper education unfolds and develops every faculty in its just proportions . . . Its aim is ... to polish and invigorate the mind-to make it used to thinking and acting for itself, and to imbue it with a love for knowledge." Unfortunately, Walt Whitman noted sadly, the minds of too many students were more stunted than nourished by the sort of "rule and rote" he had seen: too often, said he, "the windows have not been thrown open, and all lies hushed and dark...
Later last week the "Bitch of Buchenwald," no longer the doll-eyed ruminant, collapsed in a hysterical heap in an Augsburg courtroom, was carried off to a hospital for mental observation. Several doctors said she was suffering from temporary insanity caused by a guilt complex; others said Ilse was faking in an attempt to delay justice. The 43-year-old widow of Karl Koch, commander of the Nazi extermination camp, was on trial for the second time for crimes committed at Buchenwald where 50,000 died. Charges against her: instigating the murder of some 35 German inmates, instigating the attempted...