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...which has been all too often ignored in recent years seems at last to have come into its own on Capitol Hill," pontificated the Times. "American opinion, in spite of the cold war, in spite of its profound antiCommunism, is still firmly pacific, and, far from straining at the leash, will fight only when all reasonable chances of negotiation have failed. Peace is still, as in Jefferson's day, the American people's passion . . . By rejecting premature commitments in Indo-China, public opinion has overtaken the party cries...
Sometimes she is seen strolling calmly down a corridor with a hippopotamus on a leash. Sometimes she is roasting an ox in her room, or hanging a teacher ("Well, that's O.K.-now for old 'Stinks' "), or merely stretching a chum out on a medieval rack. On nature walks, she likes to collect poisonous mushrooms ("Chuck those out-they're harmless"), would hardly ever go boating without making at least one lowerclassman walk the plank. Faced with a faculty frown ("Hand up the girl who burnt down the East Wing last night"), she can look angelic...
...story itself moves at about the speed of Fate with a hotfoot. The speed, along with some lively shifts of camera angle, almost prevents a moviegoer from realizing that the camera, poor dog, is not really bounding free through the narrative growth, but poodling along on a choke leash of stagy words...
When the French Poet Gérard de Nerval was asked why he walked a lobster on a leash down a Paris boulevard one day in the 1840s, he replied: "He knows the secrets of the sea." Until very modern times, most of the sea's secrets have been known only to the sea's inhabitants, and they never tell. In the last two decades, however, a new species has joined the finny tribe: the men-fish, who, with flippers on their feet and an air tank on their backs, go down into the waters and come back to tell what...
...Cider, a dog must "make it clear from the outset which one of you is boss." A man should only be allowed to sit in one easy chair, and should not eat out of the same dish as his master. After a man has become "thoroughly familiar with the leash, one end may be hooked to the dog's collar and the other end looped securely around the man's wrist so he cannot get away." As for giving a man a bath, Ford says a dog should jump in the tub himself, with all fours, splashing...