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...more than 100 art objects -the Assyrian Gilgamesh strangling a lion in an 8th century B.C. bas-relief, an Egyptian sculpture of the god Horus with lion-hunting gear, Heracles struggling barehanded with the Nemean Lion, as shown on a 5th century B.C. Greek vase, the herdsman subduing the ox in the Zen Buddhist Ox-Herding Pictures, a Russian icon showing St. George and the dragon. Oldest examples of her theme are drawings from the Lascaux Cave in France, done more than 30,000 years ago; one of the most recent is the symbolic bull in Picasso's heroless...
...criticism of the novels involved is both incisive and original. The films chosen are The Informer, which he classifies as a mediocre novel made into a superlative film; Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, The Grapes of Wrath and The Ox Bow Incident, excellent novels resulting in excellent films; and Madame Bovary, a classic that was butchered in adaptation...
...Richardson affair seemed to poison the whole atmosphere of the campus. Lecturer-Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Ox-Bow Incident) resigned in protest; other scholars charged Stout with everything from "favoritism" to "inhuman and capricious treatment," and last spring the American Association of University Professors censured the administration for violation of academic freedom and tenure. By that time, the Nevada legislature had gone out after Stout...
...have bounced back from a staggering last-place start. They have made do without the services of Slugger Ted Kluszewski, whose injured back has turned him into a defensive drawback around first base and a spottv performer at the plate. Slowly and steadily they have clawed their way out ox recurrent slumps, and scrambled back toward the lead where they are sure they belong...
...City Hall, ascetic, chubbily handsome U Nu, just turned 50, publicly surveyed Burma's progress under socialism and found it bad. The government, with himself as "principal offender," declared U Nu, had made "terrible mistakes ... a series of blunders that resulted from putting the cart before the ox." The new solutions: 1) concentrate on the basic governmental task of establishing peace and order, 2) open up industrial enterprises to people with "profit motives," and 3) suspend all nonessential economic projects, including government projects that had encouraged "thievery and pilfering." "I do not wish," said U Nu firmly...