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...first spring diablerie of Sari Fedak. Her name, the name of Hungary's most irrepressible actress, rang merrily across innumerable little tables. Women spoke of her tolerantly (a high compliment) as they sat at Gerbeaud's tasting his famed sherbets, sucking and licking off dainty fingers the thick, pasty sweets of Hungary. Old men, taking their mud baths at the St. Gellert, quaked in merriment over the trial of Sari Fedak, quaked until reproving attendants had to plaster more hot mud upon their midriffs. Everywhere, from the promenades of Pest to the baths of Buda, every-one knew...
...nine years this sturdy, thick-set man with greying hair, who plays golf and tennis as zestfully as he works at physics, delved into the mysteries of atoms, ions, electrons. Often he strode into his laboratory at midnight after dinner or the theatre. For hours, in impeccable evening dress, he tried to measure infinitesimal electrons on oil droplets less than one-thousandth of an inch in diameter, checked his results many a time. At last he isolated the ion, studied its ways and habits. For this he received the Nobel Prize (TIME...
Twenty-three and a quarter centuries ago, a short, grotesque man, thicknecked and paunchy with flat nostrils and thick lips stood trial for his life. He had a shrill-tongued wife; by her, three "dull and fatuous" sons. His father was a sculptor, his mother a midwife. But he had been soldier, statesman, teacher; he was Socrates, the greatest liberal of his age. In Athens, 500 judges heard the accusations brought by Meletus, the poet; Anytus, the tanner; and Lycon, the orator. The accusation ran: "Socrates is guilty, firstly, of denying the gods recognized by the state and introducing...
Well might these admiring unorthodox critics be greeted with a smile from Ludwig van Beethoven, whose deaf ears rang with the Ninth Symphony for 25 years before he entrusted it to the world, who recreated the kettledrum rhythm of the Agnus Die so often that he wore holes in thick paper, who "stood on ground long ago trod by Aristotle who held that the highest art should appeal to the intellect through its perfection in form...
...children good manners. I know the law. My husband's a policeman!" Teacher Dougherty indicated that if Mrs. Youmans was going to make a disturbance she would have to leave, but her voice died in her throat. Mrs. Youmans' eyes blazed. One of her sets of thick fingers had closed around Teacher Dougherty's windpipe. The other set methodically clawed skin from Teacher Dougherty's face and clothes from her back. The fingers also doubled up and smote a blow that left lumps on Teacher Dougherty's jaw. A jury of sophisticates in nearby Haverstraw...