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...Literature, in literature, in History--ancient and medieval, and every one of them was full of incidents that he thought mocked him, since they seemed to say that the meaning of life, the peak of existence, the core of events was one certain emotion, to which he was a stranger, and for which he was very likely too rational...
...shouts one sport; "Ip! ip!" reply the miners). The most unpopular man in the place is Sheriff Jack Ranee, who divides his time between lusting after Minnie, the Polka's owner, and pursuing a bandit named Ramerrez. In Act I, Minnie falls in love with Dick Johnson, a stranger in the Polka, invites him up to her place on the mountain only to learn in Act II that he is Ramerrez. When Johnson-Ramerrez is collared in her shack, Minnie proposes a game of poker with the sheriff-with Johnson's life and her own body...
...Reds: they offered rewards to child informers who turn in "traitors."* The East German newspaper. Das Volk, reported with pride that Heidi Mallowitz received a track suit for alerting police to a would-be refugee near the border, and Karin Mundt got the same prize for directing a suspicious stranger "not to the border but to the border guards." The girls were members of the Young Pioneers, Communist Girl Scouts in the 10-14 age bracket. Vigilant boy pioneers got footballs and sports shirts...
...companion volume called Tormented Women, the Truth About the Female Alcoholic, he becomes almost gallant, sympathetically acknowledging how difficult it must have been for his listener to buy the record. "You probably said it was for a friend. You couldn't allow even a total stranger-the saleman-to suspect that you, this nice-looking lady, was a lush...
...desire that bears him insidiously back to the dear, safe days when he was a pretty little boy among pretty little girls who adored him and made no demands. But now he is no longer a little boy, and when he tries to behave like one, the games get stranger and stranger, till one day he finds himself alone in the woods with a ten-year-old girl, breathing hard and gliding close to the terrified child. Before anything worse can happen she starts to cry. He stares, staggers, vomits. At the trial, he declares his guilt and makes...