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Hornblower, the most explosive runner from last year's squad, practiced with a tender but improved bruised...
...conglomeration of strong individual unions. Since June, Feather has been jawboning his union chiefs on the virtues of labor discipline on the shop floor. His main argument: if the T.U.C.'s voluntary approach fails, Labor will be defeated at the polls, leaving the unions at the not-so-tender mercies of the Tories...
...welcomes his favorite, Gaveston. It ends with a death scene in which Marlowe dredges the most profound pity up from the most nightmarish sensationalism: the deposed king dragged from the castle cesspool, half mad and dripping with muck, washed and soothed and kissed by his murderer in the lingering tender dialogue with which a frightened lover is put to sleep. Then smothered with a feather blanket, crushed beneath an upturned table. Then legs up, and the flaming retribution for pederasty, a cauterization evidenced by the chronicles Marlowe knew but made into a myth beyond history, as searing as an image...
...animals than by people, Maxwell mined the world's far reaches for his many books. In Harpoon Venture (1952), he recounted his experiences hunting sharks off the craggy coasts of the Hebrides; travels among Iraqi Arabs led to People of the Reeds (1957). But it was his tender relationship with two otters in the remote Scottish highlands, retold in Ring of Bright Water (1960), that brought him his greatest acclaim. "Stage one on the way to understanding human beings," he once said, "is to have an understanding and affection for animals...
Dona Flor's friends can scarcely contain their vicarious relief. But Dona Flor is wretched. Her Vadinho was a tender, tireless, imaginative lover...