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...during his sabbatical. "It's testimony to my extraordinary ignorance of sking that I didn't even know there were two kinds. Now I am frightened by downhill skiing. When we were in Oslo I went up to the top of the Holmenkollen ski jump, the Olympic ski jump ther, and I could not imagine why people would launch themselves off the top of that thing voluntarily. I decided I would stick to cross-country...
...glib, vigorous and bluntly reactionary, who proposed using social welfare funds for buttressing law and order and called for the reinstatement of hanging. Labor's candidate was bearded portly Community Worker David Wiseman, 34, who became a creditable candidate after the party persuaded him to leave at home ther earring he customarily wore. Scottish Nationalist George Leslie, 45, was a popular local veterinarian who harped on the fact that Jenkins was an outsider from England...
...from the fantastic fox-trot routines that earned him the nickname the "dancing madonna," to the exact spot where an artificial tulip stood in his Paris studio (painted white, leaves and all, so as not to offend his eye with the detestable color green). Like Kandinsky, the other fa ther figure of abstract painting, he was a Theosophist: a man given to dreams of the millennium, when material reality would wither away and leave an ideal domain of the pure spirit. Art would help in this great, vague process. Though words were hard to sunder from the sublunary mire...
Exaggeration is an intoxication of words. Language temporarily loses its self-control; it veers around ther room making drunken passes at reality, biting its ear, whispering hyperhole, evem drooloing a little; YOUR SEARING GUT-WRENCING WORK IS THE LITERALLY EVENT OF THE DECADE . . .SPELLBINDING . . . MAGNIFICENT. . . A WASHDAY MIRACLE, WHITER THAN WHITE . . . A NEW STANDARD BY WHICH ALL THOROUGHBRED DRIVING MACHINES WILL BE MEASURED . . . I WILL NEVER LIE TO YOU . . . I AM NOT A CROOK. I WILL BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET . . . WE'LL GET MARRIED AS SOON AS THE DIVORCE COMES THORUGH . . . such episodes leave a man feeling like...
...long as we don't give him up, then nothing is given up." The aphorism is a frag ment of autobiography. Born in 1905 in a Danube port city in Bulgaria, Canetti claims that his Turkish-raised grandfather boasted of knowing 17 languages. After his fa ther died in Manchester, England, Canetti zigzagged between the Zu rich of Dada, Lenin and Joyce, and the Vienna of Freud, finally earning a Ph.D. in chemistry. But the young doctor chose literature instead of laboratories. Auto-da-Fé (1935), published on the eve of Hitler's Anschluss, initiated the theme...