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The radical press is quiet. A bearded man in a work-shirt and with tape on the bottom of his tennis shoes sits cross-legged on the floor and bows his head.

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: At the Gates of God-Drunk but Unafraid | 11/12/1969 | See Source »

The six-legged hero appears as a villain in Chaucer, Shakespeare and John Donne. Accordingly, the book lives up and down to its title. It even includes a bit of anonymous erotica-"The Autobiography of a Flea," whose expository style even Nabokov might envy. "I was engaged," begins the flea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Six-Legged Hero | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

"You know, the skins of those thin-legged little girls who faced the mob in Little Rock marked them as Negro, but the spirit which directed their feet is the old uni versal urge toward freedom."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: SECRET AND LOST | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

Durrell dutifully and deftly relates such episodes, customarily avoiding the smug coziness that tends to afflict family anecdotage as a genre. But the boy who grew into a topflight zoologist was always slightly more interested in the doings of four-legged animals than two. At picnics, he was absorbed, not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family + Fauna X 2 | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a hairy, six-legged, doublejawed grasshopper whose behavior has been exasperation and puzzling mankind ever since his appearance in Exodus as one of the ten plagues inflicted on Egypt by a wrathful Jehovah. Much of the time he is a normal grasshopper, evenly dispersed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plagues: The Manic Locust | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

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