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...before the U.S. personnel, their seat belts fastened, were due to fly out, General Chuan called and asked them to stay, personally guaranteeing the safety of every American citizen in Hué. The military advisers went back to their units, the civilians were evacuated-and Hué became noticeably calmer...
...dodderer, Atienza lessens his dramatic impact. In Act III, when he is suddenly reminded of the duets he once played with Ivanov's now dead wife, his burst of tears comes across more as the product of senility than of grief. Only when he speaks in a calmer voice of his own dead wife is his protrayal of grief real...
...quite match their renown. The ridiculous splotches of color on the old New England clapboard make them look garish rather than festive. Lewis' New York Store is closed. About the only scene of activity seems to be the wharf, naturally enough in a fishing town. It's calmer here, on the inside of the tip, and the tide is low, very low. A dinghy stands adrift on the black silt, waiting for the cold waters to come back; the rickety, nearly rotten legs of the wharf opposite are exposed in their spindly starkness to sea gulls, boats, and fishing nets...
...there is no immortality, I shall hurl myself into the sea," wrote Tennyson. Bismarck was calmer. "Without the hope of an afterlife," he said, "this life is not even worth the effort of getting dressed in the morning." Freud called the belief that death is the door to a better life "the oldest, strongest and most insistent wish of mankind." But now death is steadily becoming more of a wall and less of a door...
What made them make such a decision? Show this man the scrapbook, Mother. Let him see what kind of a kid it is that Harvard turned down." Alan took a calmer, broader view. "We know that the colleges have fads," he said. "One year they emphasize academic achievement. The next year it may be leadership. The next year it may be social adjustment. I had a choice. I knew my grades would suffer if I did these other things. But I don't regret it. I think they were worthwhile things...