Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presence. As the letters show. Whitman was nagged by more than one man's fair share of family troubles. One brother was feebleminded, another alcoholic, another a syphilitic who died insane; a sister was married to an artist and blackmailer of whom Walt wrote as "a cringing crawling snake"; a sister-in-law was a streetwalker; his "loud, tight, crafty" carpenter father was no help at all. Only his sturdy Dutch mother, for all her complaints, parsimony and illiteracy ("Not being boss of your own shanty ain't the cheese," she wrote), gave aid and comfort...
THAT curling gold serpent on the background of TIME'S cover this week is the symbol of the American Medical Association and of Aesculapius, the god of medicine. It is not to be confused with the more familiar two coiled snakes that the U.S. Army Medical Corps uses, and which the A.M.A. considers a mistake. Two snakes coiled around a winged staff form the caduceus of the god Mercury, who, aside from being the messenger of the gods, is also god of commerce, the deity of thieves and conductor of the dead to the underworld. The A.M.A. prefers...
...street crying: "No tip! No tip!"-employees around the country have by now established their own argot. A nontipper is universally called a "stiff," while in Boston he is also a "fishball." in New Orleans a "frog," in Seattle a "mossback," in Kansas City a "clutch," in Chicago a "snake" or a "lemon." Someone free with money is a "live one" ,or a "mark...
...hope that Mrs. Erickson might leave the treasure to them, says Director Ric Brown of Los Angeles' County Museum, "museum directors all over the world have been doing the fanciest snake dances about this picture." But, following the pattern of her husband's will, Mrs. Erickson divided her estate into 90 parts, and that meant that almost all the paintings had to be sold. For four months, Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries and London's Sotheby's and Christie's have been bidding for the job. Last week it went to Parke-Bernet, whose...
...omphalos" (navel) as against an "abstract idea nailed to a cross." Despite the truly epic flow of obscene language, which becomes first dull and then comical, the book's real shock value is not moral but intellectual: what is baffling is not the sex but the snake oil it is cooked in. Cancer is not pornography in the usual sad style of that genre; it lacks the glum and oleaginous manner, the pseudoanthropological pedantry. Miller sets up obscene tableaux vivants but moves among them like a circus clown with a bladder full of hot air. With the real pornographer...