Word: snake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides hunting Chinese Reds and Korean snails, Buster serves as adviser to his outfit on all matters zoological. He has taught them to recognise a poisonous snake or two, and during the pre-battle lull he gave them the word on swimming in the Han: little danger of schistosomiasis because oncomelania prefer narrow, shaded streams. A good chance of picking up paragonimiasis because the broad, open river might have Paragonimus westermani...
Screen Directors' Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Olivia de Havilland in The Snake...
...feet away from me four tappers--representing Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Wolfshead, and Book and Snake--descended simultaneously on the broad and waiting shoulders of football player Ed Senay, each man calling out the name of his group...
Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Berzelius, Wolfshead, Book and Snake, and Elihu will each claim 15 members. When juniors turn down places in a group, additional men will be tapped until each society has filled its quota...
...mild clouds of blossom and the dreaming laurels, and everywhere, as deep into the stunned woods as they could see, layer above unwavering layer, the young leaves led like open shale; while, against their walking, apostolically, the trees turned." The swim itself and the boyish killing of a snake afterwards are described in flashing language. But it is just here that Author Agee falters, clothing the action with symbols for which he furnishes no clear keys. As Richard and the others march back to school to face their punishment for playing hooky, Agee's final meaning lags somewhere behind...