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Birds froze in mid-air and fell like stones to the ground. At Norwich a young countrywoman started to cross the road in her usual robust health and was seen by the onlookers to turn visibly to powder and be blown in a puff of dust over the roofs. . . . Corpses froze and could not be drawn from the sheets,. .. It was commonly supposed that the great increase of rocks in Derbyshire was due to . . . the solidification of unfortunate wayfarers...
...applause for trying to be a movie with an Idea. The real trouble in this case: the movie technicians-including the director-are far too clever and too efficient for their material; it has become dangerous to let them kick an Idea around-unless it is a very, very robust Idea. By the time 4.000 competent craftsmen have focused their cold lights on Mr. Maugham's little sermon, pulled it through 89 dressy sets, photographed it tenderly from every possible angle and spiced it up with a thrilling musical background, it stands revealed as a rather small, shivering, indecently...
Victorians were appalled, but the Lawrence sisters saw their duty and did it. Nellie, Millie and Dollie Lawrence thought that young English ladies were too delicately nurtured; what they needed was a more robust schooling-the kind Eton gave to boys. On a breeze-bathed seacoast near Brighton, in 1885, the sisters built their new Roedean (rhymes with so keen) School...
...Author. Dylan (rhymes with villain, and is Welsh for "tide") Thomas was born in Swansea, South Wales. He covers his brownish, Byronic curls with a trilby and sports baggy tweeds, green shirts, Paisley ties. Short, cherubic, with fleshy lips and snub nose, he resembles more the robust, hard-drinking Elizabethan type of poet than the common hungry wolverine species. Thomas lives with his wife and two children in Oxford, goes up to London a few times a week, where he works as BBC scriptwriter and poetry reader (he is scheduled to read the title-role in his friend Poet Louis...
...September, struggle for tutorial faded silently from the public eye. There were hopes that the battle would be joined once again with the start of the fall term, but the contestants--faculty, administration, and student council alike--have turned to fresher fields of endeavor, and what was once a robust educational fight seems to have become merely a pallid and unimportant disagreement...