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...examiners rewarded Weissberg with 24 hours of food and sleep. Refreshed, he boldly recanted the whole document. "You whore! You counter-revolutionary bandit!" raged the examiner, shoving him back on the stool. Weissberg stood it another four days, "confessed" again, again recanted. He then stood the "conveyer" for a further five days-and staggered out triumphant. From then on, the G.P.U. merely kept him in prison and beat him up occasionally...
Persecutors Pass Away. Hatred of sin in itself, said Williams, is one of the true marks of a true Christian. The worldly and unregenerate "can only hate the damages and disgrace and discredit of it; and so may a whore hate whoredom. 'Tis only the property of God's children and the newborn to hate sin as sin, with the sinful appearance of it, as opposite to their new and heavenly nature in Jesus Christ...
...festival music directors, Gottfried von Einem and Bernhard Paumgartner, suggested last fall that it was high time for a look at the atonalist's operatic masterpiece, Wozzeck (TIME, April 23)-and the battle was on. Claimed the Bergophobes: Wozzeck uses unsuitable language (e.g., whore); it is "dark and depressing"; its 15 scene changes would make the production unwieldy and expensive. But the Bergophiles won out, and the phobes sat back to watch the project fail...
...cured by her indulging in a bit of homosexuality herself, when in charges Nuclear Physicist Paul Wilson (Character Wylie's nephew: no relation to Author Wylie). His dank hair is trailing over his forehead. "I'm in love," he cries. "And the girl's a whore." Character Wylie, whose air of learned sang froid is notable throughout the novel, takes one look at the girl, name of Marcia, and makes another fast diagnosis: she is a raving nymphomaniac and wholly unsuited to a career of nuclear research...
...grading of American poets and go directly to their work. On the whole, his selections are very good. He has omitted such chestnuts as The Raven and 0 Captain! My Captain! and included less well-known poems. The book is spiced by anonymous folk verse, including The Whore on the Snow-Crust, a frank 18th Century New England broadside in defense of bundling. For a quarter, a good...