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...more to help the two countries' tourist business than to patch up their political enmity. He will be visiting lands where archaeologists are searching out man's past, some of them using the Bible as a guidebook (see SCIENCE), and at a time when Greek Orthodox pilgrims swarm into Old Jerusalem for their Christmas. Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople called the visit "a very progressive act"; Moslem Sheikh Abdullah Alayli of Lebanon more ambiguously declared: "It is like Christ coming back once again to chase the Pharisees from the Temple." But the Pope clearly intended his voyage...
Dali, who has dabbled in every style since impressionism, has now reached Pop art as well. One canvas faithfully reproduces the text of a Spanish newspaper reporting the Christine Keeler affair. There is more to it than just that swears Dali. If flies are permitted to swarm on it, he says, they will take such positions that their defecation will reveal the presently invisible heads of Socrates, Homer and Lorenzo de Medici in between the lines...
Escaping Butterfly. When dangerous dawn approaches, carpenter ants swarm over the caterpillar, herd it down the bush and into the burrow. Then they crawl in beside it and pull mud pellets over the entrance. Even when the caterpillar turns into a chrysalis, they stay on guard until it emerges as a butterfly and flutters freely away...
...horror of this book is not that men breed, swarm and die like insects. It is rather that hope is always held out, and always perverted, as the world turns through its three-part cycle. Burgess' vision is both sophisticated and cynical, and there is not a line of it that seems impossible...
...views of ruins swarm with gloomy shadows and tiny human figures scrambling ignorantly through the broken fragments of a past civilization. So much did he yearn for a picturesque rustic appearance that he painted his temperas on taut goatskins. Again and again he pictured tumultuous storm scenes along the seacoast...