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...conquered Portugal. If the process of history could be telescoped like the cinema of a growing plant, "the history of Spain takes on the clear expressiveness of a gesture, and the modern incidents with which the vast attitude is ending are as self-explanatory as cheeks marked by anguish or a hand that falls exhausted." Spain's last 300 years Ortega calls a "long coma of egotism and idiocy . . . today we are not so much a people as a cloud of dust that was left hovering in the air when a great people went galloping down the high road...
...Catholic convert: "Among peoples of the earth [there is] prejudice against Jews and Judaism. ... It will be detrimental to me to emphasize publicly the religion of my ancestors; first, as a matter of convenience and secondly, I want nothing that may in the slightest degree cause any mental anguish, pain or suffering to any members of my family. . . . When the book will be published, there is no saying how many newspapers might refer to me and openly designate me as a Jew when as a matter of fact I am a Catholic...
...nnhilde in Götterdämmerung is the hardest role in all grand opera. She suffers such violent emotions, has to sing such grueling high passages, that few singers have ever made her sound convincing. Wagner used to pace the floor in anguish while writing Brünnhilde's songs. Time and again he asked himself whether any woman alive would be equal to them. Last week's audience again marveled at Kirsten Flagstad's command of the role, the way she used her strong, rich voice to convey Brünnhilde's unutterable happiness...
...authorize construction of a needless high school, while the town's rich folk warn him that he had better not do anything o raise taxes. The boycott on his store which follows Jim's honest decision on the high school affair is nothing to the anguish of his next difficulty...
...morning, the kidnapped Dictator persisted in a stratagem characteristically Chinese: he maintained his lips closed and his expression unchanged. Anyone who has ever cured a dope fiend will realize how trying this conduct by the kidnappee was last week to the kidnapper in question. Young Chang fairly howled with anguish at his inability to get Dictator Chiang to enter into the sort of negotiation which any orthodox kidnappee is usually eager to undertake with an orthodox kidnapper...