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Humanists are experimentalists, Rafton pointed out. Freed from an "ox-cart religion in a jot ago," They "don't have to stick with a dogma," he said...
...will suffer brain fag identifying the Michaelson family. There is Daddy (Art Carney), a Blunt Ox with a heart as big as his wallet ("I got in plastics early"). There is Mom (Phyllis Thaxter), a sugar-coated Sphinx full of smiling inner wisdom. There is Daughter Mollie (Elizabeth Ashley), a cute little Bunny hopping from her West Coast home to an Eastern college, and into the sights of the great white hunters from Harvard, Princeton and Yale...
...sprightly line drawings, a baby toad happens upon an ox and rushes home to tell Mamma about its wondrous size. Proud of her own size and disdainful of "being outdone by any living creature," Mamma Toad puffs and puffs until she resembles a huge balloon. Then: "With all her might she puffed to the bursting point-and burst into little pieces...
...ships. The slaves in the House of Fear are turned into beasts of burden at the behest of a crystal-twirling caliph: "Now you will close your eyes. When you are commanded to open them, you will be a bull"-or a boar, a bear, a dog or an ox, depending on how George mixes the colors on his ingenious Palette...
...Arthur W. Orton, were really space visitors equipped with four-bladed, backpack helicopters. They wore transparent space helmets ("And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creatures was as the color of the terrible crystal"), and their "four faces"-of a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle-were the prophet's description of their respiratory and walkie-talkie apparatus. The whirling of their jet-tipped helicopter blades made Ezekiel's fiery "wheels"-"and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted . . . And when they went...