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"All Right with Me." Of course, readers of poetry are different from readers of philosophy: they are more apt to draw conclusions that the poet never intended. "You know," said Eliot in a confidential digression, "in one of my poems I use the words 'the spectre of a Rose...
At the end of his attack on the newspaper, President Perón said: "I hope La Prensa will pardon this digression, which is after all only one small comment, whereas it publishes articles against me every day of the year." Next day La Prensa printed his speech without comment...
The Roosevelt Story (Tola), culled from 2,000,000 feet of documentary film, is a kind of cinematic Ode on the Death of a Hero. Its story is told through the voices and memories of mourners who watched Franklin Roosevelt's funeral cortege in Washington. Mainly the screen is...
Little Hendrik was born in Rotterdam in 1882 a few hours after Richard Wagner had finished Parsifal (the events had no bearing on each other, he whimsically explains). After recording this fact the author supplies six successive childhood memories, each followed by a digression in genealogy, i.e., the story of...
A brief digression on the nature of the New Haven trolley is first necessary. Open on both sides, the cars have seats extending across their full width from one side to the other. There being no center aisle, each passenger steps from the street into his seat, as in a...