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...away may thus materially affect the character of the next Congress and the government of many a State. These are the weeks when political candidates are at the mercy of chance. A political accident now could change a whole career, and history. Last week the political pot began to boil-and in 1942 it is no ordinary kettle...
...friends and my friends' sons; you insult anyone who attended this fine institution by referring to it as "snooty." Anybody who knows anything at all about the school knows that is exactly the contrary, and I am sure that any Noble and Greenough alumnus or friend will boil with indignation...
...Willow Run he rode with Henry and Edsel Ford down the half-mile assembly line. It was unbearably hot under the miles of mercury-vapor tubes that light the huge plant; the radiator of his car began to boil...
...from the desert that no fire is necessary. For coffee the tankers sometimes fill a tin can three-quarters with sand, pour in a little gasoline, sink it in the ground to the rim and throw in a match. The gas flames steadily, just long enough to boil the coffee...
...would be an ordinary piece of democratic propaganda. But it has indestructible meaning and grandeur, because Silone dramatizes, chiefly within one village, the conflict of two irreconcilable worlds. One is the world of Caesar: petty officials, petty sycophants, sentimental housewives, craven husbands, tame-cat priests, small landowners who "would boil the Sacred Ribs of Jesus in the tears of Our Lady of Sorrows if they could make a broth of them"-in short, the dull, timid, heartless, ambitious mass of whom, in Silone's opinion, life is chiefly made. The other is the world of God: the only world...