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...burdened with unexciting, almost identical titles (Pastors and Masters, Daughters and Sons, Men and Wives, Parents and Children, etc.). All are about the same thing-a family struggling under the rule of one or more domestic tyrants. All consist of conversation to the extent that a watermelon consists of water-conversation in which satire and terrifying realism are couched and half-concealed in a difficult, dead-pan prose...
Under the law, the hotel could not touch the mural. It was government property, in charge of the President's committee on mural painting, which happened to consist of Rivera himself, and two sympathetic colleagues: Orozco and Siqueiros. But there was no law, the hotel decided, against veiling the mural with a vast white cloth...
...Sire," he informed King Leopold from London exile, "the war is not finished . . . Politics do not consist of always choosing the best card. It is sometimes necessary to know how to play a bad card. At certain times it is better to perish in beauty than miserably to survive...
...first time since before the war the golf team will make a southern spring trip, playing vacation matches with the University of North Carolina on March 31, Virginia Polytechnical Institute on April 1, and the University of Virginia on April 2. The spring recess team will consist of the six low men in last fall's golf competition...
...storms send "microseisms" ahead of them, he explained. These consist of very slight tremors which travel through the ground faster than a mile a second. Extra-sensitive seismographs can pick up these waves and calculate the position and direction of the storm...