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The best they've got, however, is not dumb men but clever monkeys, hideous primates in leather jackets who periodically catch humans in nets for laboratory experiments or to put in cages at the local zoo. Heston's companions are quickly done in, and soon he is pleading...
Whew! Anyone can see that there are far too many scientists, navigators and Great Names in this sentence and far too few punctuation marks; even the sleeping seamen below would walk in their sleep for the nearest editor. The strange thing is that through the dreadful indiscipline of the prose...
There is a dreadful incongruity between this vision and the state of mind--and behavior--of the radical left on the American campus today. In place of a calm science, "recluse, ascetic, like a nun," not knowing or caring that the world passes "if the truth but come in answer...
Rats in the Cordage. When Wilson writes about a woman, the malice is tangibly thick: "Her heavy amber earrings and amber necklace, her dyed black hair done in earphones so dead and scurfy that one felt that if they were lifted moths would fly out of them, her dreadful arch...
"It is very beautiful -- but I think it is very dreadful!" This remark from Verena, called him back to the present. "It's a real sin to put up such a building, just to glorify a lot of bloodshed. If it wasn't so majestic, I would have it pulled...