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...farce through the blunt savagery of its incidents. There are wild moments involving the Other Woman or all the other women; there are aborted female "suicides" and aborted man-of-honor duels; and there is Mildred Natwick, as the wife, gorgeously spewing bedroom billingsgate and hilariously shifting from an invalid's helplessness to an athlete's violence. But out of the mouth of farce-like cold water from the mouth of a fountain gargoyle-flows a stream of cold wisdom. Anouilh uses the coarse, truthful exaggerations of caricature deliberately to offset the genteel evasions of life painted...
While other physicists puzzled over this evidence, Tsung Dao Lee of Columbia University and Chen Ning Yang of the Institute for Advanced Study proposed that the long sacred principle may be invalid. Recently completed experiments at Columbia have justified their assertion...
This book is the record of the year that followed. From a hulking, aggressive man-in-a-hurry who liked physical action and plenty of it, Stuart was reduced to an invalid without even the strength to tie his shoelaces. Carried back to the Ken tucky hill country where he was born, he became a prisoner in his house. A "No Visitors" sign in the driveway kept away bothersome humans, and Stuart turned gratefully to new friends: the three-legged 'possum who lived beneath the kitchen, the pewees nesting by the kitchen door, the baby-handed mole tunneling under...
...purpose of the drive, according to DeGuglielmo, is to eliminate the great number of out-of-staters who do not answer their summonses or to whom summonses cannot be served. A summons for parking violations must be delivered within six days or it becomes invalid...
Pilgrimaging to a Madrid apartment, grizzled Author Ernest Hemingway, 57, sat reverently at the bedside of frail Author Pio Baroja, 84, now an invalid as well as the tired lion of Spanish letters, whose works are cynical, realistic, often spoof tradition and women. Papa bore gifts-a copy of his Farewell to Arms inscribed to Don Pio "in homage from his disciple," a sweater and socks of softest cashmere, a bottle of Scotch whisky. Presenting his offerings, Disciple Hemingway said hoarsely: "Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted...