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...employ [these things] . . . simple men and women simply and mutually confederated for a time, a purpose, an end . . . The answer is very simple. I don't mean easy, but simple . . . The end does not even require that we dedicate ourselves from this moment on to be Joans of Arc with trumpets and banners and battle dust ... It can be done within . . . the normal life which everyone wants and everyone should have . . . Because it begins at home...
Mickey Mantle set a muscular chain reaction in motion. Starting in the ankles, rippling through knees, hips, torso, broad shoulders and 17-in. bull neck, he brought his bat around in a perfect arc to meet the ball with a sharp crack. High and deep it sailed. The White Sox centerfielder. playing deep, went a few steps back, then stood, face upturned, as the ball sailed over the fence for a 425-ft. home...
Most of Waltari's characters are drawn straight from the history books. Those who are not are made to look as if they were by the simple device of being made relatives of the authentic ones. Gorgeous Heroine Anna Notaras, who is a sort of Greek Joan of Arc with painted toenails, is the dubbed-in daughter of history's Grand Duke Lukas Notaras. Her would-be lover, John Angelos, another Waltari creation, is depicted as the rightful heir to the Byzantine throne...
Honegger: Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (Vera Zorina as Jeanne: Philadelphia Orchestra, soloists and choirs conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Columbia. 2 LPs). The burning of St. Joan, told in a magnificent mishmash of symbolism, poetry and high drama. Honegger's score contains movements of surpassing beauty, others of sheerest musical exhibitionism. A brilliant performance...
...must be taught a lesson," said her host. "That damned Land League is ruining the country." When she asked her father about it, he said: "The people have a right to the land." Later, in France, someone asked her: "Why don't you free Ireland as Joan of Arc freed France?" It was like a mandate...