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...second half of the opera, the symbolism gets thicker: Columbus' shadow and conscience appear. At one point, Columbus I and II (a baritone and a basso, respectively) clasp each other and vow to be together in death, and the finale finds a general movement towards paradise as the dove appears in radiant glory while angels (and everybody else) sing a deafening "Hallelujah...
...Empire clocks and pictures of himself and other Haitian heroes, the President reads reports and mail, takes a thoughtful second look at work saved over from the night before. At 7:30 he showers and dresses, usually in grey gabardine or white linen, a silk tie with a gold clasp, grey suede shoes. Soon he is sitting at a cluttered desk in a smallish office conspicuously free of ornament...
...fulfillment of the 26th Theorem of Euclid's Optics,* which was paraphrased by Poet-Physician Oliver Wendell Holmes back in 1859: "By means of these two different views of an object, the mind, as it were, feels around it and gets an idea of its solidity. We clasp an object with our eyes as with our arms . . . and then we know it to be more than a surface...
...Yeats fell madly in love with her, addressed many of his loveliest lyrics to her. She starred in his play, Cathleen ni Houlihan. Very tall (6 ft.), wearing her Paris clothes carelessly in those days, she was, in George Bernard Shaw's words, "outrageously beautiful." She wore a clasp in which was set an English musket ball that had killed a Frenchman fighting for Ireland. Yeats's love turned to despair when he found that neither spiritualism nor poetry could purge her mind of the British, and he wrote sadly...
Shoehorns & Scimitars. At the end of the two days of rioting, some 3,000 Arabs were rounded up in the same union hall where the trouble began. As the police forced them into a sullen huddle, the hall was filled with the clatter of weapons-clasp knives, ice picks, scimitars, poniards, shoehorns, hatchets, fire tongs and brass knuckles-falling to the floor. Net score after two troubled days: 1,000 arrests; 100 or more Arab dead, 60 known wounded and probably many more cared for by their people; five European civilians dead and 13 wounded; three soldiers dead...