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...Administration official said last week in Washington: "He's a good man, but he's been out of touch with his country too long. I think he will mellow in office." Bosch feels that his crit ics will be the ones to mellow. "At the dawn of democracy," he preached in his inaugural address, "the fears of some are very great. But the confidence of the people will grow as the sun rises at the breaking...
Once upon a time, the children said good night to their parents and went to bed; nowadays, often enough, the parents say good night to the children and go to bed, leaving the young scholars to finish their endless homework some time before dawn. If the American student could be fitted out with a pressure gauge, the needle would be trembling at a high figure. One man who has thought a lot about the pressure is John D. Black, 44, director of Stanford University's counseling service and an associate professor of psychology. In recent speeches and writings...
...need to be afraid of my position with you, so I use you a little, I play with you." Just so has she played with all the marshal's flunkies, as if she were the marshal's accomplice in debasing them. In the grey, foggy dawn, Steinbaum staggers out of the château "like a hooligan drunkenly stumbling homeward after a nocturnal orgy." The humanitarian has been...
...Water Economy. At the Foresters' Ball in Budapest's Hotel Gellert fortnight ago, 1,500 guests turned up, including even a few foresters. Gypsies provide the music, sawing out Strauss waltzes, wild Hungarian csardas and songs by somebody listed as "Colporter." The balls go strong until dawn breaks over the Danube...
...comic sections are extremely funny. A pseudoseance with one Asminu Nomadi (a name meaning "promise of the dawn before sunset") is the high point of the humor although it contributes little to the continuity. Hart should write comedy, for which he has a natural propensity, rather than the weak form of redemptive tragedy, which he strives unsuccessfully to create...