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...Columbia's classics professor, Moses Hadas . . . reports: "The argument is ingenious to the point of brilliance, sufficiently buttressed by wide learning to be plausible, if the texts concerned were not revered as sacred, and capable of providing edification for countless persons who thirst for the spiritual satisfaction of religion, but are disquieted by some of its traditional premises...
...secluded Capitol office comparable to Democratic Leader (and former Speaker) Sam Rayburn's "Board of Education," where Mister Sam's friends can sip at a bourbon-and-branch-water. Teetotaler Martin rarely visits the Clinic, but there, at the end of a long day, Halleck quenches the thirst of his assistant whips and plans the next day's work...
Says Cèline: "Mumblers and cowards." or hypocrites who are content to remain "flashy gangrenes, vested in elegant, bloody brocades," need not read his books. They can simply go to hell and be "munched with tongues of flame . . . slaking your thirst . . . with a skinful of vinegar, of vitriol so hot that your tongue peels, puffs, bursts . . . and so on through eternal time...
...Fishes. With his wife, a champion high school speller who still reads every word he writes to correct spelling errors, he has visited almost every country in the world except Russia. He plans no changes in the Geographic, still feels it has a job "to satisfy the human thirst for accurate information about people, places and things...
...Thirst will.kill a man faster than hunger, but when he had nothing else, Bombard drank small amounts of sea water and felt fine. Apart from rain, however, his basic drink was the juice he squeezed out of the fish he caught. Bombard proved his thesis but not without tremendous suffering. Never did he underestimate the hostility of the sea. He knew that at any moment a single wave could have ended his life, but his frail craft never capsized although mountainous waves sometimes flooded it. He fished and ruminated and read Aeschylus and Spinoza. He was never bored, but perhaps...