Word: stalking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...master disk over his knees, as he did at Naples a few years ago, destroying two weeks' work. On the concert stage he is equally unpredictable, sometimes performing in a sport coat or overcoat before audiences in dinner jackets or tails. He balks at applause, is apt to stalk away from cries for encores...
...picture includes some striking shots of animal life : a balding aardvark that spoons ants out of an anthill with a sticky pink tongue almost two feet long ; an immense gorilla that one moment crashes through canebrake like an express train, and the next sits placidly sucking a palm stalk ; a vast herd of zebras plunging, as they plunge in Roy Campbell's vivid sonnet, "Barred with electric tremors through the grass/ Like wind along the gold strings of a lyre...
...Thirty Years' War, which began two decades before, has long since degenerated from a conflict of comprehensible religious and political issues into a series of dogfights among irregular bands of mercenaries. Troops move about the country without pattern, leaving one hamlet in flames as they stalk out to feed on the next. It is the captain of such a rogues' company before whom Vogel, the author's protagonist, is dragged. With nothing more at stake than a life grown intolerable, Vogel speaks glibly. Instead of looting and marching on, he suggests, why should not the soldiers quarter...