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...split up by race and then dismissed the Malays from military service, the amok mechanism was triggered. The Malays chased the Chinese major, beat up the Chinese recruits, who had not been dismissed, wrecked the company canteen, snatched up broken bottles and table legs (plus $100 from the till), burned two motorcycles and overturned a truck...
...glasses. Professional teetotalers kept the 6 o'clock curfew alive in Melbourne for 50 years, but last week it finally died. Acting on the advice of a royal commission, the state parliament pushed back the normal closing time four hours-so that Melbournians could stretch their drinking till a more civilized 10 o'clock...
...jaded water-skiers the sport called "water-parachuting," in which a skier, hanging onto a rope behind a speedboat, is lifted into the air a hundred feet or so by a special parachute, then is cut loose to settle gently into the water again. And for all, from morning till night, there is the sun. When it sets, there are the parties, two and often three a night. They begin late (Acapulco dinners start at 9:30, often last until midnight), and host and guests wind up at Tequila à Go-Go, which stays open until 5 a.m. The Rothschilds...
...novel should reform itself by drawing upon its ancient Aeschylean and tragic heritage," he wrote to his publisher. "There are a thousand writers who can draw adequate characters till all is blue for one who can tell you anything new about hell fire." Lowry set out to do just that. Most modern men do not believe in hell because they have not been there. Lowry did, because he had been there. He also believed in a number of other unmodern things-that "life is a forest of symbols," in fate, destiny, demons and spells, numerology and divination by study...
...sure, too, that people would be good to him, and so, of course, they were. Giuseppe Siboni, director of the Royal Singing Academy in Copenhagen, took him in off the street to sing at a dinner party, and gave him lessons till his voice broke. The Danish Royal Theater offered him employment as a troll. The King himself, who had read some of his poetry, sent him on a two-year tour of the Continent and granted him 400 rigsdaler a year...