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...four-mile grind, the Yale varsity was favored to win, but the Crimson scored the "upset" that so many expected. Both crews started at 32 and then dropped to 31. After the half-mile Yale started to creep ahead, but just before the two-mile mark the Crimson caught them...
...four-mile grind, the Yale varsity was favored to win, but the Crimson scored the "upset" that so many expected. Both crews started at 32 and then dropped to 31. After the half-mile Yale started to creep ahead, but just before the two-mile mark the Crimson caught them...
Read casually, The Holy Sinner seems merely an affectionate embroidery of a pious legend. But that would not be Thomas Mann. As usual, he has glazed the legend with elegant mockery; the notions of Freud creep in to jostle the miracles of faith. Here is a delightful story, Mann seems to say: thanks to God's mercy, an Oedipus with a happy ending. And Mann is too good a pessimist not to conceal his own derisive smile...
Since its foundation in 1842, the Salzburg Festival has always featured Native Son Wolfgang Mozart, although other Austrians and some outsiders, e.g., Beethoven and Wagner, often creep in. One Austrian whose name was never mentioned in the same breath with Salzburg was Atonalist Alban Berg. But this year Berg made...
...tense uncertain faces, personal tragedies have graven bitter lines. Often, helpless hysteria bursts through the curtain of self-control; at other times, Germans seek emotional relief by unburdening their life stories to any listener. Whining and self-pitying creep into ordinary Conversations. The Germans are not yet a happy people. How could they...