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Ursula was to me one woman and every woman...Uterine, ugly, odorous, earthen, vulval, convolvulaceous, saline, mutable, seductive--the words, the qualities kept issuing without cessation from the round and beautiful sound of her name like bees from a hive or little fish from a tube...
...increasing at Harvard the kind of thing that History and Lit does, if that's desirable, would not be to expand the existing groups," MacCaffery said, "but to hive off additional ones...
...Austrian who did most of his research at the University of Munich, Karl von Frisch established after decades of observation that bees communicate with each other through a complicated, highly articulate language of dance. He found, for instance, that a bee returning from a source of honey near the hive will perform a "round" dance, but if the source is more than about 160 ft. away, he will "waggle" instead. When the scout bee steps forward during the waggling dance, it points the way to the source. Having written the classic book on the subject, The Dancing Bees, Von Frisch...
Over the years Congressmen have risen up to denounce a myriad of evils: vice, extravagance and, occasionally, one another. Now it is "honey money." That is how Massachusetts Republican Silvio O. Conte waspishly described payments made by the Department of Agriculture to beekeepers who are compensated $15 a hive for bees inadvertently killed by Government pesticide programs. Conte allowed that $15 did not seem like much, but he pleaded with his colleagues to "look at the size of the claims submitted under the program, and you will get a taste of what a honey of a deal Congress has created...
...Excuse me," she told the alumnae. "I really must leave. I have a swarming bee hive to tend to." To which one of the women replied, "Oh my, what are the students protesting...