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...small army of servants waits on the whims of the family. When a new husband of a Ventura bride wonders aloud why he sees the same lackey in crimson livery standing in the same spot every day, he is asked in return: "Don't you agree that a touch of red is needed just there, a complementary color to focus the green composition, as in a Corot landscape?" The woman who makes this reply is Celeste, the family's ultimate arbiter in matters of aesthetics, interior decoration and fashion. She is blind. Similarly, the renowned four-story library...
...watched the news sometimes on the air on addresses that I've made and, yes, they show me coming into the hall and they show me up there speaking, maybe one sentence aloud on sound, but then I see myself silently speaking while some commentator goes on for 40 seconds telling the people what he says I said. They don't let the people hear what I said...
...capital's Place des Alaouites to their mid-morning appointments. At a major intersection a few yards away were contingents of police outfitted with full riot gear and swinging batons at their sides. Pointing to other men in civilian clothes lingering near by, a taxi driver mused aloud, "Undercover officers. They've been here since Saturday, following 'the Troubles...
...Administration insisted that the naval air strike had been a success on a number of counts. It had destroyed several menacing targets. It had signaled Syria that it could not continue to attack American reconnaissance flights and get away with it. Critics in Congress and the press, however, wondered aloud whether the attack had not been a failure (see box). Though the Reagan Administration was correct in its assertion that the raid had silenced the Syrian antiaircraft batteries, there was no indication of how long they would remain silent. In any event, the mission's successes were obscured...
...song of canaries/ Never var ies,/ And when they're moulting/ They're pretty revolting"). Anthologist Prelutsky gives equal time to children's resentments and fears, but his best selections feed the youthful sense of wonder expressed by Emily Dickinson's argument for reading poetry aloud: "A word is dead/ When it is said,/ Some say./ I say it just/ Begins to live/ That...