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...article on Daniel French's sculptures, I notice that the statue of John Harvard has been moved from its customary position in front of University Hall and placed in front of Memorial Hall, a hideous but charming edifice at the north end of Harvard Yard...
Gloomy Dean Inge found only one thing to be thankful for: "That the hideous hellfire theology is heard no longer in our churches." Today, he said, clergymen are ashamed to use such appeals as did colonial New England's Jonathan Edwards, who warned: "You cannot stand before an infuriated tiger. What will you do when God rushes upon you in His wrath...
...kept three Spanish officers behind as hostages and sent his young kinsman, Donald MacLean, along to collect the gold on the spot. Once on board, Donald was clapped in irons, and-hostages or no hostages-the galleon hoisted sail and headed out to sea. A short while later a hideous explosion-it was young MacLean, they say, who touched it off-rocked the quiet harbor, and the Spanish ship settled peacefully below the waves, ten fathoms down. Only the captain's dog and three sailors escaped drowning...
...Many societies have vanished in the past and found no recorded or recognizable place in history. But never has this hideous fate presented itself more brutally to so numerous, complex and powerful a community as we are, and never has it presented itself to a victorious nation on the morrow of its triumph in saving the freedom of the world...
...watches, absorbed, the mating dance of the scorpions: "These hideous devotees of gaiety provide a dance that is not wholly devoid of charm . . . They seek one another and fly precipitately the moment they touch, as though they had mutually burnt their fingers ... At times there is a violent tumult; a confused mass of swarming legs, snapping claws, tails curving and clashing, threatening or fondling, it is hard to say which. All, large and small alike, take part in the brawl; it might be a battle to the death, a general massacre; and it is just a wanton frolic...