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...moment, the country's 9,000,000 voteless, restless Negroes are lying quiet. Most hope that the United Party will win as the lesser of evils, but a smaller more militant group believes that a Malan victory will sting the blacks into closing their ranks completely. Said one of these: "Malan has advanced Negro unity by 50 years." Political experts think that Malan will probably win, helped by the emotion-charged cries of "Mau-Mauism...
...they stood around waiting their turn, some of the youngsters pleaded, "Mamita, don't let her sting me." But they all got stung, and after a few tears most of them affected an air of childish martyrdom...
...catch, make 28 measurements, and catalogue a single gall wasp, I calculate it would require Dr. Kinsey approximately 13½ years to complete the job on the basis of a 12-hour day. This allows no days off, no time for lunch, and no time to salve the stings (assuming gall wasps sting). Furthermore, if 3,500,000 gall wasps are so stupid as to fall into the hands of a man like Dr. Kinsey-well, they just don't deserve to have any secrets left...
...Kinsey's study of the secret life of the gall wasp (they don't sting) took some 25 years. He had help from a research staff of graduate students, other scientists and, occasionally, his own family...
Almost all the cartoons in the book, and there are over 400, cause either a guffaw or an "ooph" depending in each case on the reader's politics over the last six years. A few have lost their sting, but most still retain a quality which can best be likened to the impact of a razor-sharp sledge hammer...