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About this inward theme of guilt and redemption rages the outward action of the book. In 1348 the Black Death tore through Bedesford like a cyclone; fewer than a third of the townsfolk survived. Then came the plague of the fallow deer and the flood of the Wode. Yet Edwin and Jeanne, Jack and Joan, Alfred and Juliana went on working and breeding, and soon the fields were up to mark again and the population almost normal...
Emancipation. In Tokyo, Police Officer Tadao Takase asked for a divorce, charging that his wife, taking advantage of Japanese women's newly conferred equality, 1) tore his underwear, 2) ripped his uniforms before meetings, 3) ran out on him 40 times, 4) regularly chased him off his beat...
...Little Men. Boiling with energy, Painter Lewis had become a writer as well. In his first novel, Tarr (1918), he tore into sentimentality and romanticism. In poems, books (The Art of Being Ruled, Time and Western Man) and pamphlets, he attacked the little man, the big man and the "mass units" of democracy. A rogue male who belonged to no herd, no party, he was worshiped by a few and tolerated by many-until the fateful day when Adolf Hitler loomed up on the horizon and captivated him. "To my eternal shame," groaned Lewis last year, "I ... wrote that Hitler...
Nothing is unusual in Winthrop House. According to legend, a group of stewed students returned to their rooms one night to find a dead horse marked "M.I.T." blocking the hall. Without a moment's hesitation they made their way to M.I.T., tore up the sidewalks with pneumatic drills left by Cambridge workmen the day before and departed. M.I.T. waited...
...dockworker tore the false bottom out. White reached into the trunk and pulled out 8 Ibs. of fine Mettwurst, a German pork boloney, homemade by Bohling's relatives. White ripped the sausages to shreds, looking for dope or diamonds. There was only Mettwurst. The Department of Agriculture man confiscated it all pursuant to Bureau of Animal Industry Order No. 373, which forbids the importing of uncertified meat from countries infested with foot-and-mouth disease...