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...speed matters," Molotov obligingly agreed. The Western foreign ministers reached at last for their portfolios on Germany and Austria. But Molotov smiled a polite smile. "I crave your indulgence. It so happens I have with me ... another resolution I wish to table." He laid it before the others. If words could mildew, it would have been a deep, miasmic green, for it was the old, empty Soviet proposal for a world-disarmament conference...
...male transvestite possibly lead a relatively happy life as a "woman"? Absolutely not, say most U.S. psychiatrists. The castration many of them crave may give them the temporary illusion of womanhood, but it can be nothing more than an illusion, and when it disappears, the disappointment and frustration are likely to make their last state worse than their first...
...That was where the totally unexpected landslide of U.R.D. votes apparently came from. It was true that Pérez Jiménez was not yet unhorsed. But through his clumsy seizure of the presidency, he had placed himself and Venezuela further than ever from the democratic respectability they crave...
...suffer such humiliations. But it is insecurely successful men like Hugh Walpole-craving dignity as others crave alcohol-who not only suffer most from them but seem always to invite them. Walpole, it might be supposed, had every reason to be cocky and self-confident. He belonged to one of Britain's best-known families. His 50-odd books (Fortitude, The Dark Forest, Rogue Berries) brought him fame, Rolls-Royces, a flat in Piccadilly, a knighthood, a superb collection of paintings, a library of first editions and valuable manuscripts. He received compliments even from Queen Mary...
...universities. "Somewhere," Hancher tells his students, "the art of contemplation has been lost...An occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art . . . They possess an integrity, a calm and assurance, a wholeness of mind and body that is a kind of holiness. This wholeness, this holiness, I crave...