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This student--who happenecidentally, to be Irish--des his reaction to the book: "The et said, when you pick this bo you can't put it down. Of cour rather doubted this. But I the book, read it on the train said hello to Mother, and w reading till I'd finished. W said seemed so true...
...photographer named John Sadovy. When LIFE released six of his pictures to the Associated Press, hundreds of newspapers across the U.S. snapped up the chance to run them. Sadovy's grim shots of fury, terror and the face of death were all the more remarkable for the cold cour age he needed to take them in the most dangerous kind of combat-a confused, vengeful rebellion in which the bullets zinged from all directions...
Dancing Out the Love. Sponsor of the affair was the Comité Officiel des Fètes de Paris, which likes to start each tourist season with a cultural eye-opener. The committee began with the idea of using the Louvre's 3½-acre Cour Carrée, one side of which is dominated by a superb Renaissance clock tower. What could be more appropriate than to stage a version of the Renaissance tale of Romeo and Juliet? And what treatment of that theme could be more grandiose than French Composer Hector Berlioz' half-symphony, half-opera...
...passed by the National Assembly in the light of decrees or regulations issued by Francis I or Louis XIII, and use the final and authoritative construction thus put upon it to pour back the new wine into the old bottles of an archaic jurisprudence. Before the last war the Cour des Comptes still used the same antiquated accounting system, the same quill pens, and the same bewildering piles of ledgers that were used in the Chambre des Comptes of the last Capetians [circa 1300]." The typewriter and the calculating machine were added only after...
...time has been reached . . . when it is no longer defensible to fail to take a stand. We must use all our wits and our patience, all our reasonableness and cour age ... In particular we [must] not fight fire with fire. Freedom is too precious to deserve rash or stupid support...