Word: serpents
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...Beelzebub!" he roared at his right-hand man. "Get this unsufferable nitwit out of here. Put a few adders and a serpent or two into his belly to gnaw where the bullets shattered his spine. Then send him back to his hell on earth. . . ." And that is the reason why the conquered people of Europe, the "silent people" who suffer and wait and hope for liberation, first heard last week that Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi hangman, had been killed in Czecho-Slovakia; then, later, that he was not dead but would be hopelessly crippled. Heydrich might still...
...abuse the privilege of addressing the masses in their parlor."* In this splendor he also finds considerable mystery, as in the apparent passivity of the clergy toward a daytime serial called Light of the World-a breezy job on Holy Writ. ("Don't tell me again what the serpent said," shouts Adam at the dinner table, "I'm tired of hearing about...
Good as Mr. Moore is, he has to bank on the turns to stay ahead of Comic Bob Hope, the Flexible Flyer. Each of them is a hilarious mixture of dopey dove and smart serpent. Hope's style of comedy (the dead-pan wisecrack, the unembarrassed exhibition-e.g., demonstrating the correct way to don a woman's girdle) is designed for counterpunching. His performance is patly complementary to that of Victor Moore, who has been around long enough (66 years) to know how to handle enthusiastic young comics without either stealing or being stolen from...
...Shelley reminded him (he said) of a serpent that walked on the tip of its tail -so strange and rapid were his movements, so remote his habits-glistening, ubiquitous, and hard to capture." Trelawny did not discover that of him Byron had said: "If they could teach Trelawny to wash his hands and tell the truth, they would have some hope of turning him out a gentleman...
Rainer Maria Rilke could serve as a symbol of the best and worst meanings of the word genius. He was a lap dog for cultivated ladies, loveless as a serpent, soaked to the soul in the most indecent self-pity. He was also ruthlessly loyal to the fact of his genius as a poet. Professor Butler looks at him with a level, sane, exacting eye. The result is the first biography and critique of Rilke to be worthy of its subtle, over-culted subject, "the greatest German poet since Hòlderlin...