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...schools, gave them three months to learn their lines and six weeks to learn the music. What impressed him even more than their musical aptitude was their anxiety to please. Early in the rehearsal period, he spotted a small boy wearing a duck label, asked him if he could quack. "No," said the boy solemnly, "but I'm double-jointed...
...world with their begging bowls, dispensing sacred teaching, sage advice and examples of the unworldly life. Inevitably another breed of sadhu arose that was anything but straight. Trading on the enormous prestige of the holy men, these daubed wanderers move from village to village dispensing magic charms and quack cure-alls and mulcting the credulous peasants. Today at least 75% of India's 8,000,000-odd sadhus are racketeering fakes. Last week something was being done about it for the first time. At Rishikesh, a Hindu holy place on the Ganges about 140 miles from New Delhi, officials...
...Much was a disguise for his sensitivity and loneliness. The rest was a sort of game. He was proud of being a great gourmet-like his friend Lord Houghton. who died murmuring: "My exit is the result of too many entrees." He was a wit; once he greeted a quack doctor with "a very low bow" and the words: "I hope, sir, that you will live longer than your patients." He tempered the generosity of a prince with a biting common sense-as in his answer to a request for money for a friend's tombstone: "I lent Maginn...
...physicians from crown to toe, pronounced in excellent health. Last week Attorney General Will Wilson told her stories as he staged a Texas-style roundup, corralled 61 naturopaths in 29 counties. Wilson asked for court injunctions to restrain them from practicing. At his heels in what they called "Operation Quack Quack," district attorneys were proceeding against the 61 on criminal charges (unlawful practice of medicine), possibly graver felony charges because narcotics and barbiturates were found in several offices...
...Lord Ullin's Daughter, which they had read as children in a McGuffey reader. For years Leavell has argued for a new version of old values. "It takes no more time to teach the child the phrase 'right or wrong,'" he says, "than it does 'quack, quack...