Spend the time killing things and there's a bonus for each hit - but only for fatalities notched up since the start of your current life.

The younger literary generation has come on the run because it’s cold out there. The sobriety, and lack of coltishness, constitute their qualifications for reporting fashions or sports; or teaching “Creative Writing” on another campus. They bespeak a readiness to be cowed in return for a stall in the Establishment barn; at whatever cost in originality.

Behrends has chiseled the official Senate bust of the disgraced Vice President Spiro T. Agnew; molded a bronze bust of Andrew Johnson, who became president after Abraham Lincoln ’s assassination, for the Tennessee state capitol; and created a statue of Strom Thurmond, in midstroll, for the lawn of the South Carolina State House in Columbia.

Preſent we meet thy ſneaking treacherous ſmiles; The harmleſs abſent ſtill thy ſneer reviles; Such as in thee all parts ſuperior find, The ſneer that marks the fool and knave combin'd; When melting pity would afford relief The ruthleſs ſneer that insult adds to grief.