Word: venoms
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...plainly a parable of humanity caught between competing ideologies. "To make hate," says Mauriac, "is comforting. It rests the mind and relaxes the nerves." And Paula Cernes, a middle-class girl married to a decayed baron, has been making hate for 13 years. She lives in a tangle of venom with her husband's family, and despises her son Guillaume, a backward child, because he is so much like his father. To spite them all, Paula sends the boy to take lessons from the local schoolteacher, an open Communist. The schoolteacher brings the boy out a little, and Guillaume...
...belief in a supreme God. Devils were a keystone of belief among the Aztecs, the Assyrians and the ancient Chinese. In the Buddhist scriptures, the Devil Mara appears at the head of an army of demons with "bodies of flame . .. with the skin of oxen, asses, boars . . . spitting snake venom-and swallowing balls of fire...
Three hours after he got the news, Dr. Soule wrote a note to his family (his two daughters were abroad), begging forgiveness for the disgrace he had brought. Then, after asking his wife what time dinner would be, he went down to the basement, filled a hypodermic with snake venom and gave himself eight injections. When his wife came to call him for dinner, she found him lying on the floor. "Don't call a doctor," he whispered, "there's no antidote to this poison." In a few minutes, he was dead...
...late 1860s, two things were sure to make San Franciscans sit up and take notice. One was easy gold, the other an acid writing man named Ambrose Bierce. The easy gold was usually illusory, but Bierce went on tapping a virgin lode of venom that lasted 40-odd years...
...face) and dialogue strewn with virtually every known epithet for Negroes. They draw the line at showing much of the race riot-in which the Negroes ambush and demolish the mob that plans to attack them-but the detailed scenes leading up to it are charged with venom...