Word: inhabitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earthworms come in some 2,200 varieties, ranging in size from the one-inch species that inhabit old logs to the seven-foot Gippsland giant of Australia. Some affect bright colors, including purple, blue and green. Regeneration of lost tails-and sometimes heads-is only one of the worm's accomplishments. A hermaphrodite, the earthworm carries both male & female reproductive organs in its many-segmented body. But two worms normally cross-fertilize each other; experts doubt that a single worm ever acts as both father & mother of its own eggs...
...shorter stories, "The Vigil," by William A. Emerson, is neat and subdued, creating atmosphere in a small space. In "Kenneth," A. K. Lowis has satirized the slick magazine story by substituting grotesque animals for the even more grotesque creatures that inhabit the originals. The result is almost pointless, but delightful...
...Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, did not wait for the cocktail-bar moralists; the Nuba have been euthanasians since way back. Once they are sure that a tribesman is possessed of a djinn (evil spirit), they bump him off. Everybody (in the Otoros), of course, is quite certain that djinns inhabit the bodies of the lame, the deaf and the dumb...
...cracks are fresh and strictly bon ton. Here are no new ideas, no thought, no stimulation--unless concurrent mistresses is your idea of a good time. Dear Noel's world, artfully constructed of gold cloth and pastel pasteboard, contains no people, at least not the kind that inhabit the world. Rather does this craftsman of the sex comedy take into his delicate hands again the familiar set of dolls and sends them whirling on the polished floor, kidding, insulting, wallowing in the tart and tasty intoxication of flip sophisms and casual sex play. The effect in startlingly funny...
Bernanos is trying to explore states of mind too private to be communicable. Few novelists could give flesh and blood to such a clutter of spiritual skeletons as inhabit the De Clergerie chateau; even fewer could use a teen-age girl as the symbol for an exalted faith without making her too good to be true. Joy is fair evidence of why Novelist Bernanos has never influenced many and yet has vigorously influenced...