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...addition, one side is devoted to works for men's voices, and these, because of either the acoustics of Busch-Reisinger or the chorus' composition, have a propensity to descend into the cellar, producing a sort of grovelling and definitely un-vocal tone...
Within minutes of the opening, most of the 160,000 first-day visitors tried to descend on the U.S. and Russian pavilions. (In the crush, a Belgian guard at the U.S. pavilion was pushed through a plate-glass window, hospitalized.) Both pavilions got mixed notices. There was almost universal agreement that in architectural beauty Edward Stone's circular U.S. pavilion of steel and gold aluminum (TIME, March 31) surpassed Russia's rectangle of frosted glass and steel, though the Soviet building was an improvement on Russia's usual grim monoliths. Those who think that fairs should...
Chuck and George decide to take it on the lam from lamaland. On a brilliantly starlit night, the technicians descend by donkeyback to the foot of the high Himalayas. "Wonder if the computer's finished its run," muses George. "It was due about now." Both men gaze upward and continue to do so, for "overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going...
...honored by your fair review of my book. As you say, the new Roman Catholic native bishops often descend from kings (or chiefs) of cruel ancient tribes. It was France and the other powers that freed the numerous slaves of these kings and chiefs. As the example of Ghana already shows, by gaining "independence" too soon, the natives often lose their individual liberties in a new theocratic dictatorial state, where politics is in the hands of the clergy and feudal families. In such a "clerical" state, democracy and human liberties-liberty of expression and of conscience-are bound...
...sulphur often hung on the air above the plain . . ." Through Canaan ran an enormous geological fault, and a shift in this, it is thought, touched off an internal explosion of petroleum gas which in turn sent tons of flaming asphalt, marl, salt and limestone high into the air to descend on the helpless cities as brimstone and fire out of heaven, from the Lord...