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Dressed in a dark-blue double-breasted suit, a dark-blue tie, and a shirt with a blue pinstripe, Krishna Menon looked more than ever like a snake charmer, but he denied that he had developed a personal aura of mystery: "The only mystery I know of about myself is that I have nothing to be mysterious about. It is so simple that it appears complex. And this world loves complexity because it flatters itself - how complex we have made things - and it is complexity that baffles us. That...
Jove is an ageless lecher, a kind of zoological Don Juan who seduces girls in the guise of a bull, eagle, swan or snake. Juno is a screeching termagant who never gets even with her errant spouse, but always squares accounts with his latest girl...
Ever since "Snake Pit" dramatized the problems of a mental institution, the public has slowly become more and more aware of the forgotten patients and the startling statistics existing in mental hospitals throughout the nation. Recently, three actions have put the problem in sharper focus: a Harvard volunteer program, a state-wide report, and a national foundation grant, each in different ways, have shown encouraging details within a generally bleak outline...
...Novelist Joseph Conrad, the Congo River was "an immense snake uncoiled" curving through "joyless sunshine into the heart of darkness." There was plenty of darkness in the Congo during the igth century "scramble for Africa," when Baudoin's great-granduncle, Leopold II staked out his monarchical claim to the uncharted Congo Free State. Leopold's rubber gatherers tortured, maimed and slaughtered until at the turn of the century, the conscience of the Western world forced Brussels to call a halt...
...commandos" catch the tribesmen, it is literally an eye for an eye. The hero himself cuts off one man's genitals, hacks out another's tongue, and, pinning a Mau Mau woman to the ground, tries unsuccessfully to get her to talk by dropping a two-foot snake upon her genitals. Finally Peter says: "I have shot only wart hogs and camp meat, so to speak . . . Now I want to go and find me a fine trophy ... I will collect old Kimani and hang him on the wall...