Word: maze
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soul amidst the pottage. The France lectures also summarize succinctly the complicated maze of Rabelais' writing with inclusion of quips and incidents that are among the most amusing and the least vulgar. The neatest summary and the most judicious excerpts could give no conception of the texture of Rabelais' wit ; but they point to a profitable perusal of the 1.021 close-packed pages that comprise the works of the original Rabelaisian, now available in one volume...
...pleasant, and justice too lenient, he thought years ago when he wrote his first full-length thriller, The Four Just Men. He thinks so still, and releases this month The Three Just Men-the survivors of his eccentric millionaire quartet who administered justice when the law failed. A labyrinthine maze of blood and thunder, his latest concoction works itself up to a grand finale with airplanes training guns on a London riverfront den of vice, and deadly snakes slithering across the floor toward a lovely victim. That she was heiress to a gold-mine in South Africa...
...write about a mystic without making him seem too queer is a distinguished accomplishment. Author Williamson's mystic cuts strident across a maze of conventionalities, but he is never cheap, affected, sentimentalized. His theories may well antagonize, but his understanding of animals, his intuition regarding fellow humans, are faultless, impressive...
...policy will give the public "the amount of the over-assessment, a brief summary of the facts and a citation of the applicable statutory or judicial authorities." More important, it will create a new set of public precedents governing tax refunds, which will help to guide taxpayers through the maze that is the Internal Revenue Bureau...
...international, but their composite character does nevertheless present serious problems to the student of mythology. Most of those problems still await a solution, and the histories of many divinities must be written before a complete Buddhist mythology can be composed. As a matter of fact Buddhist mythology presents a maze complicated by the different way in which the Indian names are treated by the Buddhist of Tibet, China, and Japan Some of those names are translated, others are transcribed by the non-Indian Buddhists and still others represent a mixture of the two methods. Tracing those names back to their...