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...climb the Tree of Life. Now I am 77. My hope each evening is that I may have the bliss of falling forever into a deep, dreamless sleep. To me there is no lure in any imaginable sort of "eternal life." The greatest happiness I have ever enjoyed would pall into unspeakable boredom in vastly less than fourscore years, let alone "eternity...
...chart reading should pall and travel beckon, the U.S. Travel Service has advice about how best to go far, fast and inexpensively. While the Government has not yet taken a hand in promoting the citizen's social life, the Travel Service will arrange for visitors from abroad to stay in the home of almost any American who wants foreign company...
Beatty believed in pushing his luck to the limit. When his act began to pall, he mixed lions, tigers, leopards, pumas and hyenas. Then he became the first man ever to mix lions and tigers of both sexes, eventually performing with more than 40 in the cage at the same time. It was a threatening, unstable mixture, and often it exploded. To hear Beatty tell about it was spine-tingling. "Nero [a black-maned lion] stood over me, ready to sink his teeth in my face. Desperate, I planted the palm of my right hand against his nose and shoved...
...fatigue of men like James Lee Jackson and Malcolm X, the closest feeling we can summon up is boredom. Because we are bored, not tired, we go North and South, demonstrating for every conceivable cause. And it is also why we can leave those causes so quickly. They pall...
...Rome, Butcher Alberico Amati tried to be more subtle when an undertaker moved in next door, casting a pall over Amati's business. In reply, Amati propped up a pair of buffalo horns and insulting poems in his window; the display drew him an eight-month suspended sentence. His patience gone, Amati then got himself photographed in the newspapers with a two-finger corna defiantly aimed skyward. Tossed into jail, Amati was provisionally sprung last week pending an appeal of his original conviction-based on his claim that the buffalo horns were legal because they were inside his property...