Word: serpentes
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...crackdown hardly came as a surprise. In recent months the Soviet press has been railing against alcohol abuse and condemning the country's passion for vodka, or, as Soviets often call it, the green serpent, for the creature it can evoke. Excessive drinking is described as the leading cause of divorce, violent crime and accidental death. Soviet statistics also suggest that alcohol abuse is the main reason that male life expectancy, which is on the rise in all other industrialized nations, has dropped from 67 years to 62 over the past 20 years. Says a Western diplomat based in Moscow...
...with bloodshot eyes and many wounds? It is the one who spends long hours in the taverns, trying out new mixtures. Don't let the sparkle and the smooth taste of strong wine deceive you. For in the end it bites like a poisonous serpent; it stings like an adder." The archbishop responded evenly that Henry's was an experiment, an attempt to provide a wholesome meeting place outside commercial bars. Saying the arrangement involves some risk, McCarthy said he nonetheless expected "that an atmosphere will be created of adult Christian responsibility similar to that in a good...
...novels of the mid-1920s, Aaron's Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923) and The Plumed Serpent (1926), veered toward the worship of supermen, blood-consciousness and dark gods. Only in Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), his last novel, did he return to the subject of men and women in love that he had discarded with Mr. Noon. Then, throwing caution to the winds, he opened that bedroom door completely and apparently for good...
...better to confront the regime with its sins than to remain silent. When ideology beckons, he recoils, resolving at last that he would rather reveal inhumanity poetically than revile it politically. "Tell the human story," he says, "and the propaganda will take care of itself." And when the Serpent Players, his all-black troupe of actors, are invited to perform privately before a privileged all-white audience, Fugard surprisingly accepts. But instead of the scheduled comedy, the company presents The Coat, a jolting play about a black man unfairly sent to jail...
...each consisted of no more than four to eight cells. Ultimately, these were placed in the wombs of surrogate sheep or goat mothers and allowed to grow to term. Such hybrids are called chimeras (after the mythic monster with a lion's head, goat's body and serpent's tail...