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...creature that is woman. We men are silly. When we whip our mistresses or have our hounds taunt them, we think it is we who enjoy this. Not so. It is the wily women (and I have no doubts that Miss Trepan is such a one) who with every shriek twist we men around their little fingers. What vain creatures! How silly we men! How silly women! How silly...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: THE STORY OF F | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

Awesome Recognition. After Flight 150 put down at Accra airport, the first hint of trouble came as a squad of Ghanaian security police, checking passports and looking for prospective political prisoners, strode up the aisle. With an awesome shriek, the West African enemies recognized one another. Some of the Guineans fastened their seat belts and howled with indignation; the Ghanaians unbuckled them in short order and trotted them off to prison, declaring that the Guinea delegation would be held as hostages until Guinea's President Sekou Toure repatriated "100 Ghanaians held against their will in Guinea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Unhappy Landing of Flight 150 | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...write a classical lyric." His own writing, both poetry and prose, is "thinkable, but not readable -- there is a majesty and grandeur in something that's in its crude, formative, germinal stages, where the reader can fill in the gaps." And then, characteristically, interrupting his own lecture to shriek. "Poetry is wonderful -- it's nonsense -- I love...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: 'Scorpion' Survives--From Issue to Issue | 8/23/1966 | See Source »

Will tolerate no by standing: I must shriek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Blood Jet Is Poetry | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...elements; all is a shriek, a bellow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Name of the Void | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

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