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...Ibsen asked men and women to be honest with themselves. He saw most human beings as hypocrites of the heart, defilers of the mind, and desiccators of the spirit. In his plays he waged an inexorable assault on the timid frauds, the sick souls, and audaciously exposed social dry rot. Integrity was his dramatic Excalibur. The profound irony of The Wild Duck is that it unflinchingly examines the human havoc that can result from so ruthless a devotion to honesty...
...feeble-minded) will really point up the futility of it all. And then, glory of glories!, have the Deprived One murder the beautiful bride of the Depraved One. One victim of the system destroying another. Only the causes of the whole tragedy surviving it. What irony! What tragedy! What rot...
...troops will have to learn, as the Viet Cong have, that in a water war, ammunition belts corrode and uniforms and boots can rot within a week. Finding adequate amounts of dry land for base camps will also be a problem. A good rest area is essential: even the long-inured Vietnamese seldom stay out in the field for more than 24 hours at a stint. Finding dry land to implant batteries of howitzers is difficult. More armed helicopters could fill the gap, but they require airports, which in the Delta must be built up with imported gravel...
...bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. Beneath my skin, my flesh begins to rot, and my bones stick oui like teeth...
Longshoremen in San Francisco, refusing to handle scab products, let a $300,000 shipment of Schenley's grapes rot on the docks. During the winter the California growers began a counter-boycott against those merchants who refused to carry Schenley products, a good indication that the boycott was beginning to squeeze...