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...secretary in one of the not-so-strict Houses said, "We're going to fight it to the hilt. But it gets to the point that if you want to have a good name around here," you comply...
...years later when he rejoined Mrs. Mayer after D-Day, Mayer and his beautiful wife returned to America, his college diploma summa cum laude in hand and his war decorations in a trunk. Mayer said, "I never had that Scott Fitzgerald youth that one can imagine enjoying to the hilt . . . After spending five years as an artillery officer engaging in wholescale destruction, I wanted to help rebuild the world through science." He came to America, this time Yale, partly he says, "because it would have been too easy to succeed in France without knowing anything...
...fully equal to Janis Joplin's; both have a raw-edged wail of pain that really cuts through you. Like Janis, she makes the transition from one extreme-show blues-to the other-hard rock-with utmost agility. She is a Sex Goddess and plays the role to the hilt, managing to infuse as much nuance into every line as the audience cares to dig. When she caresses the microphone in a certain, very suggestive way, she exudes more sexuality through her fingertips than Jim Morrison has in his whole body. And her dancing ... well, James Brown might be better...
...teams have grasped the idea of the Square as Game, and they play it to the hilt. The most conspicuous is the Hare Krishna people. They have shaved heads with pigtails, wear long white robes, and chant HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE/HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE. They contend that this makes their lives sublime, and that it can do the same for you and me. They ask for money and distribute cards bearing the chant I have just outlined. Take a card, because it contains also an invitation to a love feast held every...
...around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways. They are terribly concerned about what other people will think of their behavior, and they are also overcome by guilt when other peon $49 pie know nothing of their missteps. Their soldiers are disciplined to the hilt but $4.0 are also insubordinate...