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...domain of his instincts, he is hardly known at all." That, in parvo, was Fabre's technique- "personal interviews" with his minute subjects. The Languedoeian scorpion (not the common black scorpion of Europe, which is harmless) is a grotesque, straw-colored beast, 3½ inches long, with bony armor and a hard, sharp, poison-tipped tail. Only a Fabre could be intimate with him. He digs his own home in the sand under rocks. He feels his way with his pincers, because, despite his eight staring eyes, he cannot see straight ahead. His courtship is an epic, ending...
...protection is in our fraternity. Our armor is our faith. The tie that binds more firmly year by year is the ever increasing acquaintances and comradeship, and the compact is not of perishable parchment but of fair and honorable dealing which, God grant, shall continue for all time...
Monna Vanna. The Middle Ages, the ages of picturesqueness, make good movie copy. So Maeterlinck's play of the days of the warring Italian city-states has all the advantages of armor, battle and the full trappings of romance. Lee Perry plays the beautiful Monna Vanna to a knight's taste and all that a curious, if bloodthirsty, audience could ask in addition would be more scenes of the heat of battle...
Certain of the Fundamentalists, armed with the Gospel armor, have already entrenched themselves behind the left-hand column printed above. Between the left and righthand, they say there is no middle ground, no compromise...
...they become greatly inflamed and cause painful ulcers. His face is the shrunken visage of an old man. The nurses at the Charity Hospital call him " Grandpop." The disease is fatal unless the sun can be kept away from the skin. A New York electrical engineer devised a protective armor to filter the sun's rays so that only those milder than the red of the spectrum can reach the lad's body...