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...where one was sure to see George Balanchine and the Maharani of Jaipur. Or late lunch in the Trattoria Panciolle, followed by a long siesta. The music of pianos, violins and vocalizing floats out of narrow Renaissance windows; artists and audience are on first-name terms within hours. After dusk, international jet setters in white dinner jackets brush shoulders with gaping locals in sweatshirts at the superheated discothéque. Then it is on to a 16th century vaulted cellar that serves cannelloni till dawn...
...near monotone, he continued: "As far back as we can look-until the light of history fades into the dusk of legend-such aspirations of man have been submerged and swallowed by the violence and the weakness of man at his worst. Generations have tried and failed. Will we succeed? I do not know, but I dare to be hopeful and confident...
...first time since the '30s, Negro field hands are striking on the cotton plantations of western Mississippi, where the pay is $3 a day and the hours are dawn to dusk. Ardently promoting the strike and helping to organize a union of the fieldworkers is the Delta Ministry, set up by the National Council of Churches last September to work for social and economic justice for Negroes and achieve a "reconciliation" of the races in Mississippi...
...drudgery. While I continued to respond to each day's major challenges, I caught myself feeling that four more years would be four more years of the same thing." Earlier in the week, Wagner had described the demands of the job: "The working hours run from dawn to dusk and well into the dawn again. If there were twice as many hours in the day, the work still wouldn't get done. The solution of every problem brings to light two other problems. It is like peeling the layers off an onion...
Mirage opens with a skyline view of Manhattan at dusk, and Director Edward Dmytryk quickly and Hitchcockily establishes the city's menacing mood. One glittering spire of steel and glass, suddenly goes dark. Inside the building, corridors teem with silhouetted confusion- elevators stall, office parties begin, and the leader of a world-famous peace foundation plummets 27 floors to his death. Hero Gregory Peck, looking vaguely troubled, chooses to walk down. En route he meets an enigmatic beauty (Diane Baker) who seems to know him intimately, though he has never seen her before...