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...frost and thaw. Its Geophysical Institute has become a center for research into the upper atmosphere and the aurora. Last year some 30,000 visitors trooped through its museum to examine 100,000 Indian and Eskimo exhibits as well as the skeletons of the hairy mammoth, super bison, musk ox, Pleistocene horse and saber-toothed tiger. Meanwhile, the university has spread its influence far beyond its own borders. Last year 1,000 adults took its special nine-week mining course; 1,000 students are now enrolled at its branch community colleges in Anchorage and Ketchikan; 1,100 study...
...search for the everyday, true incident is hard to reconcile with the epic violence of the westerns, and here again there has been a radical change: the superman has been superseded by a 'new type' of cowboy, who hesitates, who suffers and who is afraid." Examples: The Ox-Bow Incident, Gun fighters, The Treasure of Sierra Madre...
...find that they also deal with ideas current in astrology-a house, a hand, an eye, a fish, a serpent . . . while, strangely enough, the last of all in the Hebrew is Taw, a 'mark,' a 'sacred symbol,' the Aramaic Tor, 'oryx' or 'ox,' the Arabic Thaw, the Greek Tauros, the Latin Taurus, the Germanic Thor, 'the Thunderer.' Two bulls? The first and last letter of the alphabet a bull? One is reminded of Alam and Alad, the two bulls of the Sumerians, one on the right hand- and the other...
...astronomical sign for the constellation Taurus is Ψ which resembles the later Greek letter Ψ. The Chinese Luna zodiac sign for the same constellation was six stars Ψ, in the shape of a bull's head, while the sign of the Chinese Luna zodiac was Niu, the "ox" which in primitive form, resembled the head of an ox...
...bargain counter where "their hands clasped over a pair of socks at a reduced price," is a kind of Clausewitz of the cash register. Her axiom: wars are long and rations get short. The Poissonards stock the Bon Beurre fore and aft. Tins of ham as big as ox livers prop up the conjugal bed. Sausages hang thick as stalactites from the ceiling. On the floors stand wheels of Gruyere and slabs of Cantal cheeses, "the mighty pillars of this Temple of Foresight." Rationing is declared, and Julie beholds a vision come true, all the neighbors "down on their knees...