Word: serpents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move was hardly serpent-subtle, but it fitted present Communist postures and predicaments. As propaganda, it obscured the fact that the U.S. has long since withdrawn all but two divisions. As a practical matter, the 350,000 Chinese troops in North Korea are a drain on its shaky economy, and back in China they can flesh out the none too plentiful labor force, still act as reserves ready to pour back across the border if necessary. Weapons kept by the U.S. in South Korea capable of delivering nuclear warheads rankle Peking and Moscow, and while Chou was ranting last week...
...made an excited announcement: on some of them he found the Greek inscription, "Done by Agesander, Polydorus and Athenodorus," the father and sons generally credited with the original Laocoön group. Said Jacopi: "That violently twisted neck . . . that great marble foot . . . the veins on that huge hand . . . the serpent is monstrous ... I believe it is Laoco...
...road. Two Algerian rebel leaders showed up in neutral Stockholm. Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas, in Montevideo, announced: "We have decided to knock at all Western doors, even of the United States. But if our appeals are not crowned with success, we will go to Moscow to embrace the serpent itself, ready for anything that will obtain liberty, just like Morocco and Tunisia...
Miss Bettis (The Serpent, and Fusima) makes the most of her wonderfully modulated and deep-throated voice. As "the most subtle" Serpent she slightly lingers with superb effect over the sibilants that Shaw carefully placed in her speeches. Tolan (Cain, and Zozim) brings real fire to the role of the world's first transgressor of the Fifth and Sixth Commandments. Moss (Prof. Barnabas, Accountant General, and the Elderly Gentleman) manages to make individual his three well-seasoned men. John Granger (Strephon) and Dorothy Whitney (Chloe) round out the cast...
...ancients, a chimera was a fabulous monster with a lion's head, a serpent's tail and often an extra head in the middle of its back. To the botanist, it means a plant combining growths of differing genetic makeup-usually the result of grafting. Now British medical scientists are discovering human chimeras, in which one person has some of the body cells of another, invariably a twin...