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Yelping Dogs. Richard is a hunchbacked Renaissance Stalin with a monstrous thirst for power. He terrorizes less by his inveterate plots than by his malignantly charged presence, mesmerizing those whom he would murder. Called "a bottled spider" and a "bunch-backed toad," he is nonetheless poisonously fascinating. Nowhere is this more apparent than when he woos and wins the Lady Anne over the coffin of her husband, whom he has murdered. A scene that seems logically inconceivable becomes psychologically astute as Richard, who has never wept, weeps; who has never knelt, kneels. With the reckless audacity of his passion...
Chitlins Wit. Marshall, a gregarious storyteller with a dry wit and a healthy thirst for bourbon and water, has been married since 1955 to Hawaiian-born Cecelia Suyat (his first wife died of cancer a year before), and lives in an integrated neighborhood of Southwest Washington.He is equally comfortable drawling earthy tales in a self-mocking, chitlins-and-cornpone Negro dialect or arguing law in meticulously scholarly tones...
...Color -Soldiers! I invited you to share in the perils and to divide the glory of your white countrymen. I expected much from you; for I was not uninformed of those qualities which must render you so formidable. I knew you could endure hunger and thirst; I knew that you loved the land of your nativity. But you surpass my hopes. Soldiers...
...sort of college application you'd generally expect to receive. But the llo'yoke Center-based African Scholarship Program of American Universities -- ASPAU --each year screens some 10,000 applications, many of them like this one, bespeaking a crying thirst for higher education which either may not be available in their country or which is unattainable because of poverty. ASPAU helps...
...Positive Thirst. Chief Reddin calls his predecessor "one of the greatest police administrators who ever lived." But Tom Reddin, he adds, "is a different fellow from William H. Parker." Reddin sees opportunity in "a community thirst for positive programs from law-enforcement people. We have to find a lot of things to be for rather than a lot of things to be against." The son of a New York millionaire who got rich running carnivals, Reddin was forced into optimism when his father lost every penny vainly drilling for oil in Oklahoma. A star student as well as a star...