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...town. Does lust for a Schiaparelli justify the burning of Eden? Is Author Spark just pulling the reader's leg? A final scene is not much help. In it, the vicar is told that his poetry-loving daughter believed in the existence of Hell. "Really?" he replies with dismay. "I've never heard her speak morbidly. It must have been the influence of London...
...look with dismay upon the rising militant actions of Negro leadership. Negro impatience can readily be understood, but whereas peaceful demonstration brings ever more sympathy and strength to the movement, defiance and ultimatums breed doubt, and riots breed hatred that delivers irreparable damage. Poor leadership has lost many a battle regardless of the strength of the troops. I pray that the Negro community will follow those leaders capable of restraint...
...future." Made of steel, glass and aluminum, the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. head quarters combined the taut discipline of Mies van der Robe's masterpieces with grace notes-inner courtyards, reflecting pools, broad promenades-as old as the most ancient palaces. Now, perhaps to their dismay, the officers and employees of Connecticut General can look out their windows and see on a neighboring knoll a new building that tops theirs in grace and drama...
Signs of Objection. A consequence of the Negroes' heightened militancy was that it brought some signs of dismay and hostility among Northern whites. In Chicago, Lawyer Stephen Love, a white member of the N.A.A.C.P., angrily resigned from the organization because its leaders refused to apologize to Mayor Richard Daley for the jeering he received at an N.A.A.C.P. meeting. In Washington, Ohio's Democratic Senator Stephen Young warned that if any Negro demonstrators try a sit-in demonstration in his office he will "personally and forcibly" throw them out. In New York City, demonstrators besieging a White Castle hamburger...
Action returns to the present and a townsman, gazing up at Muscari's statue, says "People now are much more honest than 70 years ago." The statue, in a final gesture, shrugs his marble shoulders in dismay...