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...their fathers' skulls and use them as drinking cups out of filial piety. On stormy days, when blizzards smother the high mountain passes, lamas cut out paper horses and scatter them to the winds to carry help to any poor traveler foundering in the deep snow. Meeting a stranger, a Tibetan sticks out his tongue in friendly greeting...
...stranger appears, cries out against the damnation festering in the world, and asks to be hanged for double murder of the rag and bones man and a pimp, only to be ignored. A witch arrives, breathless from a chase over eight walls, but is nonetheless scheduled for an early a.m. burning. Alizon Eliot, a young breath of innocence fresh from the convent, comes to marry Humphrey Devise, is playfully desired by the impish younger brother Nicholas, falls in love with orphaned Richard, the Mayor's clerk, and grows into a woman by the end of act three. The witch, Jennet...
Though Macao is no stranger to refugees, never had so many-6,000 men, women and children-come at one time. Reason: a report that the Reds were about to start fishing communes, to match the hated land communes. To lure the fishermen back, Peking promised that the fishermen would still be able to keep up to 40% of their catch. The Communists also put pressure on Macao fish merchants not to buy from the refugees. Both pressure and promise failed. In desperation, some fishermen tried eking out a living with odd jobs ashore, or by begging in the streets...
Berlin in the '20s was perhaps the gayest capital in the world, and Paul Tillich was no stranger to night life. During one of the art students' fancy-dress balls, at which he turned up in a cutaway and turban, he met a handsome girl in long green silk stockings, named Hannah Werner. As Tillich put it recently: "Things went on from there...
...devotee of art in the University Community, activity in the Fogg Museum is no stranger. Behind the quiet of its galleries, he sees the active aspects which the casual visitor is likely to miss, the careful arrangement of a special exhibit or intense study for a Fine Arts 13 exam, the photographing of an ancient sculpted head or the creation of a new piece of sculpture. Available to all, however, is the distinctive atmosphere of Fogg's pleasant corridors and light-bathed courtyard...