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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dreams & Delirium. Young (28), handsome Piotr Pirogov quickly found a literary agent, arranged to give lectures, write articles and turn out a book. But Barsov was at a loss. Older than his navigator and outranking him, he seemed to resent his pal's success. An inarticulate, heavy-boned man with thick-knuckled peasant hands, Barsov found himself all but ignored. In his diary he noted: "As always, all-knowing and haughty to the point of stupidity, [Pirogov] insulted me repeatedly . . . Today's quarrel with Pirogov made clear my dependency upon...
...nine months. Last week, without the moral support of the presence of his mother, Princess Elizabeth, he stood up well under the ordeal of his first boughten haircut at Birkhall, near Balmoral, Scotland, where the royal family is vacationing. His golden locks were trimmed enough to give him "a young gentleman's appearance" by Felix West, of Trumper's, London, who also cuts the hair of Grandfather King George. Burbled Barber West: "He sat up like a little man while I went at it with the scissors. Didn't even squirm. Laughed when I tickled...
...Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. Senior Naturalist Knight Jones of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries reported ruefully: "Mortality was 90% in the Crouch." The U.S. invaders were two snail-like creatures Railed the American slipper limpet and the American whelk tingle, which bore through the shells and eat the young oysters. The whelks and limpets stowed away when the British imported* young U.S. oysters to fatten in British oyster beds. The U.S. oysters fatten fast, but do not multiply; they find the British coastal waters too cold for spawning. The British government is now raising special oysters at Conway...
This was the land that brown-skinned young Carlos Morelos grew up in, and where he learned about the simple duties man owes to man, of Chan, the Nacheetls' God of the Universe, and of Jesucristo Salvador too. But when he left his village and moved to the capital, Carlos ran up against a lot of other matters, and almost all at once. There were such puzzling things as the political democracy of John Locke, the Marxian dialectic and the news (slightly belated) of the atomic bomb. Author North seems to think that it could happen that way almost...
Carlos got his first lessons from Don Ricardo, the liberal judge who wanted to see "a democracy in the Locke tradition." But Don Ricardo sounded mild to Carlos after the young man fell in with some of San Marcos' parlor radicals. One of them, a sottish and oracular Scot, explained to him why radicalism would gain a hold among the Indians: "And rrrememberr also, Carries, the Bolsheviks may not be rrright, but they prrresent a hope. To the rrragged and the hungrry and the sick of hearrt they prrresent a hope!" Carlos remembered it a long time, especially after...