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...Hampton Beach sunburn when the corpsman told the new V-12s coming into sick bay that he had been out on a raft in the Atlantic for 10 days. . . the will have to dim those neon lights in the Oxford or more of us will get burnt...
...Moss and Stones. Expert trackers can follow a trail from horseback even across flat granite rocks and the pebbly "Gibber Country" of the interior. There is virtually no vegetation, but the trackers watch for displaced pebbles or almost invisible marks in the vestiges of moss burnt to dust by the pitiless...
Theme & Variations. Upon this theme, in poetry rich in paradox and reward, in mystery, in symbol, in despair and, ultimately, in hope. Eliot develops his great variations. The sere, cryptic titles of the four quartets are the names of places intimately associated with his experience. Burnt Norton was a Gloucestershire man or near which he lived for a while. East Coker is a Somerset village which was the home of his ancestors. The Dry Salvages (accented like assuages) is a group of rocks off Cape Ann, Mass. Little Gidding was a lyth-Century religious community established by Nicholas Ferrar. Each...
...parachuting down. Lucien landed in a pile of brush, wrapped himself in his parachute and went to sleep. Brick landed hard on his fanny on top of the next mountain peak and dozed off. One boy landed beside a mountain ledge, lit a cigaret in the dark, flicked the burnt butt on the ground beside him. He looked down and saw the butt dropping hundreds of feet below him into what seemed a bottom less void. He didn't move another foot until daylight. Crouch hit the ground about 20 miles from a Chinese field where the flight...
...Burnt Cork, owned by Negro Comic Rochester (Eddie Anderson), Jack Benny's radio stooge...