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...souls of men . . . The conflict of the future is between the absolute who is the God-man and the absolute which is the man-God . . . The anti-Christ will not be so called, otherwise he would have no followers. He will wear no red tights, nor vomit sulphur ... He will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian; he will talk peace, prosperity and plenty ... He will foster science, but only to have armament makers use one marvel of science to destroy another . . . He will even speak of Christ and say that he was the greatest man who ever lived...
...have been wrong when he laid down his deathbed formula for dealing with the whites: "Live with your head in the lion's mouth . . . Overcome 'em with yesses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open." But in his junior year, the visiting white philanthropist whose car he is driving asks to be taken off the usual showplace rounds. They spend part of the day at the shack of a Negro who has made his own daughter pregnant, wind...
Ensor's story is the story of an artist rebuffed who turned misanthrope. "All rules, all canons of art," he said in his mature misanthropy, "vomit death." He dressed his subjects in leering masks, pitted them in futile struggles against each other. Even his own family was not proof against his scorn. In The Artist's Mother in Death, he stretched his mother's gaunt, grey-faced corpse ironically alongside a menacing array of medicine bottles. Although he never left Belgium, Ensor's pictures helped set off detonations all over Europe. "I indicated all the modern...
...soup. Holohan sat down with his back to the stove, and Manini slipped potassium cyanide into Holohan's bowl. Holohan took a few spoonfuls. The soup burned, he said. The major doggedly ate on, said that he felt sick, and reeled upstairs to vomit...
...Schering Corp. (run by the Office of Alien Property) became the world's second producer of cortisone,* began distribution of Cortogen, a preparation for eye diseases. ¶ A Navy doctor gave a rule of thumb for judging the prospects of atomic-radiation victims: 1) all who do not vomit should live; 2) those who go on vomiting will die; 3) half of those who stop vomiting within a few hours will live. ¶ Britain's National Health Service started disciplinary action against a dentist who did 14 fillings in 55 minutes-on the ground that...