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...drink?" I asked. "Man, I drink like a fish," was her reply. It turned out that she was testing me: she had been to five gypsies before meeting me. Two of them, out of superstition, refused to read the life line because it was marked with a distinct scar. The other three told her that she would not survive 50. It seems she had been recently widowed, had nothing to live for, was drinking herself to death, and didn't care. I told her that by her palm I also doubted that she would live past 50, unless she took...
...whom he tees off at a banquet or on television; yet they cannot wait to tee off with him on the links the next day. He kids the starch out of them, and they feel better for it; a needle from Hope becomes an emblem instead of a scar...
...woman operated on at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital in 1901 who recovered for several years, but then suffered a relapse. They insisted that in animal experiments severed ends of cord had been snugly sewn together but that regeneration had been brief at best, due to formation of scar tissue. If Dr. Murray's spinal-cord repair stands the test of time, it will be an impressive achievement indeed...
...root, patriotism bore no such scar. In 1578, during the Dutch-Flemish revolt against Spanish rule, the word patriot was. first used to mean one who represents people and country against the king. By the 18th century, patriotism denoted love of a free country, devotion to human rights as well as nationalism. To Stephen Decatur's famous toast "Our country may she always be right; but our country right or wrong" Carl Schurz later replied: "When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right." Who decides what is right and what is wrong? The Schurz position...
...cost of it all has been huge. The vicious civil war that followed the Bolshevik coup decimated the Russian population and laid waste the land. The Stalinist reign of terror destroyed millions of Russians, among them many of the most intelligent and talented, and put a permanent scar of guilt on the nation's psyche. Industrialization was accomplished only by forced labor and the long and severe deprivation of the populace. The self-defeating collectivization of agriculture was squeezed from the blood and brows of the stolid and melancholy peasantry. Fear has been the single most dominant characteristic...