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The Inner Life. Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle has traveled a long way since he was "born in Lille, 57 years ago, the son of a philosophy professor. He early acquired a love of reading and learning, and at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, where he has a country...
Puerto Rico's home government, which knows that migration is the best and easiest solution to the island's unemployment, hopes that somebody will work out a plan to channel the migrants to U.S. farm and industrial areas. Any diversion of the flood would take a lot of...
The attributing of sensual or spiritual qualities to music itself is an arbitrary thing indeed. Since extreme religiosity is a diversion of sensuality, it seems not unsuitable that so-called sensuous music be used as a means of stimulating religious fervor. But music itself has no real erotic influence on...
¶ This will require diversion of grain shipments from the West, which will more than offset the rise in grain production.
It was an explanation that did not satisfy such protesters as the Metropolitan Opera, Fiorello LaGuardia or Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini, longtime friend of Puccini, made public his telegram to President Truman: "[I] implore you to forbid this greedy diversion of great Italian musical art . . . you, who are a passionate lover...