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...machinery, consumer items and technicians. Russia, already the world's biggest sugar producer, is a net exporter of sugar; at best, the Cubans could expect to market one-sixth of their next year's crop to the Soviets. They may find, as Nasser did when he bartered cotton to Russia, that the Communists will dump it elsewhere, depriving them of other markets...
...whoops hoarsely for Negro Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics; complaining that "I can always find plenty of women to sleep with but the kind of woman that is really hard for me to find is a typist who can read my writing"; stuffing his ears with cotton for days after visiting the house of Beethoven and being reminded of the composer's deafness; walking up 49th Street under Writer Nancy Hale's window chanting "I wrote 10,000 words today"; and finally, lying dead in Maryland, survived by the ringing fact that nowhere in the region...
...there anything new about this. Boston, despite the fact that it used to be a hilly peninsula almost completely surrounded by water, has survived countless faceliftings without changing much. As Cotton Mather wrote: "This town of Boston is become almost a Hell upon Earth, a City full of Lies and Murders and Blasphemies; a dismal picture and Emblem of Hell. Satan seems to take a strange possession...
...July 7-8, George Selleck, United Ministry to students; July 11-12, Professor William Albright, W. W. Spence Professor of Languages, Emeritus, The Johns Hopkins University; July 13-14, Professor Michael Demos; July 15 and 18, Rabbi -Zion Gold, United Ministry to Students; July 19-20, Dr. Dana M. Cotton; July 21-22, Professor Robert G.
...Miss Ellen" Gray, the well-bred widow who is the wispy heroine of Pierce's story, self-discovery is not easy. She spent her prewar life in an indolent dreamworld as soft and sheltered as a cotton boll, with endless maids and mammies to tend every want that a dutiful husband and son could not fulfill. The war killed both, and drove Miss Ellen from the family plantation to live with relatives in Raleigh; even then the protective cocoon of her gentility was scarcely damaged. In June 1865 she returns home with her widowed daughter-in-law, "Miss Lucy...