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...Flood, Earthquake, Pestilence and Famine; neither shall the crops grow nor the fruits ripen; the wells will dry up and the waters will bear upon them blood and bitterness, so that the birds of the air, the beasts in the field, and the fishes in the sea will all perish...
...marshal has become an opposition hero and a formidable prospect for next year's presidential elections. The opposition cause was also boosted by widely respected Syed Mahbub Murshed, former Chief Justice of the East Pakistan High Court, who told the nation that "we are not destined to perish in ignominy if we put up a determined and united resistance to evil...
...fond if not indulgent critic, though, Hofstadter praises the vitality of his progressives and probes their private lives and times. In surprisingly effective thumbnail sketches, Turner appears as a generous teacher and enthusiast who would never have survived in the publish-or-perish world of today's scholar. During his lifetime he signed contracts to write at least nine books which he never finished, though he left 34 file cases of notes...
...Soviet Union, which represents itself as free, can commit the same acts of aggression in Czechoslovakia as the U.S., which also claims it is free, does in Asia. I can only hope that Czechoslovakia's progress toward realizing a blend of Communist economics with humanist politics will not perish. Long live a free Czechoslovakia...
...Tarzan of the title is Baron Wolfgang von Hoppe (Rudolf Hruŝínsky), whose parents take him to the African jungle around the turn of the century to escape the sinks of civilization. Vati and Mutti promptly perish, of course, and little Wolfgang grows up among the apes. Captured by hunters some time in the '30s, he returns to the family Schloss, where the estate is being run by his rascally cousin Heinrich (Martin Ružek). Heinrich hires an English governess called Regina (Jana Štěpaňková) to give the ape-baron enough...