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...murderers swim forever in a river of blood; the flatterers wallow in human excrement; the sowers of discord are split up the middle and stagger through eternity with their entrails hanging out. From time to time, with the brutality characteristic of his age, Dante personally assists their torment -he kicks one sinner in the face and sadistically rips out a fistful of his hair. More sympathetic episodes are artfully interspersed. In the second circle, for instance, Dante meets Paolo and Francesca and tells the touching story of their tragic love. Unhappily, the canticle concludes with a large and, to modern...
...ordinariness (even morally commendable ordinariness) is closely akin to plain dullness. Frequently The Negro Cowboys slows down to a heavy-footed stagger. Since Negroes were at home in Western society, reminiscences about their exploits get just as mawkish as any Western yarns...
...occupied the country for 22 brutal years. The Haitians banned all foreign priests, severed papal relations, closed the University of Santo Domingo, and levied confiscatory taxes. Not until 1844, when Haiti was torn by one of its many civil wars, did the Dominican Republic finally break free?only to stagger through 22 revolutions over the next 70 years, including a brief period (1861-65) when it once again reverted to Spanish rule...
Without depth, the Middies have to count on victories from their front-line performers. The Harvard stars can stagger a little and the team will still stand...
Dawn was breaking as a trio of trucks and Jeeps rolled into the grounds of the Red Chinese embassy in Burundi's lakeside capital of Bujumbura. Steel-helmeted Burundi troops stood by, watching rows of Chinese stagger out of the low, grey stucco building carrying luggage and huge bundles of documents. Then Peking's Ambassador Liu Yu-feng and his wife glumly entered a black Mercedes for the trip to the airport, where an Ethiopian Airways DC-6 stood waiting. The airport porters were most emphatically ordered not to touch so much as a suitcase handle...