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...minutes after the appointed time, as the perspiration stain on the reporter's notebook grows darker, a junior press aide steps from his office. "The president is ready...
...Michener, the central paradox of the Afrikaners remains their gift for overcoming adversity and their inability to deal with compromise. After the Boer fighting ends in 1902, South Africa moves backward onto narrower and narrower ground. The warring English and Afrikaners unite in a fear of darker races...
...poll also discloses that while the national mood is darker than four years ago, people are much more realistic about what the new President can accomplish quickly. While expressing hopes that he can improve the national welfare on a wide array of fronts, Americans also share a widespread recognition that noticeable changes may take a while...
...deeper and darker up this river that snakes through the jungle like a bird--the "silly little bird" of Heart of Darkness--trailing like a serpent. Mahler's dense harmonic texture surrounds the flow, but does not stagnate it. Joseph Conrad, a riverboat man himself, especially in his Malaysian period, would have liked this bastard child as much as a trip...
...slowly, and no persona in the field of American culture is more instantly recognizable than hers. The armature of bone is a little more visible through the gaunt face when the makeup is off; the immense clumps of false eyelashes, glued double or treble to her lids, seem rather darker against the skin; the expression is slightly more imperious. Otherwise there is little apparent change...