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Knife & Corn. The Maya, he says, were remote cousins of the Inca, the Iroquois and the Eskimo. Squat, copper-colored, often cross-eyed (admiring crossed eyes, they hung beads of resin before the eyes of their infants to induce a squint), they were wise, brilliant, cruel...
Entitled Same Sita (Lapp Village), the book was a best-seller in Sweden. Skum had a one-man show in Stockholm which sold out the first day. Looking like a squat, genial troll, Skum came down out of the wilderness to see the Big City. Said Skum: "Quite good to have been built by man." Then he went back to God's country and told his wife they were through living in tents; he had decided to build a two-room cottage where he could rest his 280 pounds during the long winter night and draw in comfort. Also...
Zweig has two explanations for the vast productivity of the squat, ugly writer who became the acknowledged master of the 19th Century realistic novel. One was Balzac's feverish lust for power. "If the opportunity had offered, Balzac might equally well have become a businessman or a slave-dealer, a speculator in real estate or a banker. It was mere chance that directed his genius into the channel of literature...
...Lynn Classical and Revere High game will draw more cash customers than Harvard-Brown. In addition, it undoubtedly will be a much better game of football. . . . Harvard-Brown--a squat-tag game masquerading under the name of football." November...
About all that little Joe ever did was brush the flies off the horses' big rumps while his old man did the shoeing. Little Joe never actually worked at his father's trade. But he grew up to have his old man's squat, thick-knit build. And in the politician's trade, which Joe Martin took up, he worked somewhat in the manner of a blacksmith-a nail here, a nail there, working most of the time close to the ground...