Word: serpentes
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...foot boa constrictor slithered out of the Panama jungle one night last week, writhed up a high-tension-line tower along the Panama Railroad track, then glided onto a cable. Forty-four thousand volts surged through the serpent in a whoosh of flame, cremated it within two watch-ticks. As the boa's charred body tumbled down, lights blinked off for a quarter hour along the Pacific side of the Canal Zone. Power failed for three minutes at the great locks of the Panama Canal, then surged back as automatic emergency equipment went to work. It was the Canal...
...gone with wandering merchants thumbing barge rides. On the lips of mendicants with shaven heads and shaven eyebrows it had traveled through cobra-ridden jungles where tigers lurked and elephants lurched, and on into the cool, airy teakwood forests of the uplands. In ancient, serpent-topped temples, yellow-robed monks prepared a welcome...
Iowa-born Nila Cram Cook, "Blue Serpent Goddess" of the early '30s and onetime ascetic disciple of the late Mahatma Gandhi who gave up Hinduism for the high life of New Delhi, later moved on to Greece, Turkey and Iran, where she founded a national opera and ballet company, turned up in Jericho. Weighing over 200 pounds, and nursing a broken left leg, she was engaged in an arduous literary task: "I'm translating the Koran into English, annotating it marginally. I shall make the Koran comprehensible to every intelligent person who can read English...
Sixteen-year-old Cleopatra runs through the play like quicksilver-a kitten all cuddle and claws, still worlds away from Shakespeare's Serpent of Old Nile. Caesar, finding her a petulant child, leaves her a queen and woman, with a new authority and cruelty. But it is Caesar who really dominates the stage: a Caesar who is neither the image on a Roman coin nor the stern voice of the Roman Capitol, but a great and contradictory man molded into a peculiarly Shavian hero. Shaw's Caesar is much more the clement conqueror than the model for dictators...
...serpent asked angrily: 'Do you dislike my voice...